Susannah J. Ural, Ph.D.

Susannah J. Ural, Ph.D. is the Frank and Virginia Williams Chair for Abraham Lincoln & Civil War Studies in the Department of History at Mississippi State University. She specializes in the study of military history, especially of nineteenth-century America and the Civil War and Reconstruction era. The author of four books and numerous other publications, Ural's writing almost always ties back to the experiences of soldiers and the communities they build and rely on in war and peace. At Mississippi State University, in addition to her research and teaching, Ural oversees public engagement with the Frank & Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana, which was the nation's largest private collection of Lincolniana when the Williamses donated it to MSU in 2017. Ural is a past president of the Mississippi Historical Society and co-directs the Civil War & Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi project (CWRGM). Her latest research focuses on Abraham Lincoln and Civil War soldiers.