Dr. Jeremy Neely

Biography

Dr. Jeremy Neely is an assistant professor of history at Missouri State University. Alongside teaching introductory classes on U.S. history, Neely teaches upper-level courses on the history of the American West and Civil War memory. He has also taught courses on the history of Missouri, including “Missouri’s Civil War,” a Massive Open Online Course that Missouri State Outreach offered to more than 1,000 students around the world in fall 2015. Prior to Missouri State, Neely lectured at the University of Missouri and at Cottey College. He's the author of "The Border between Them: Violence and Reconciliation on the Kansas-Missouri Line."

In addition to writing for the New York Times “Disunion” series on the American Civil War, Neely also contributed pieces about guerrilla warfare to the Kansas City Public Library’s award-winning history project, The Civil War on the Western Border. He has been a featured guest on KCUR’s Central Standard, speaking about Missouri’s Confederate history. He has also served as historical advisor to the award-winning #QR1863 project, a social media re-enactment of William Quantrill’s 1863 raid upon Lawrence, Kansas.

Details

Education

• PhD, History, 2004, University of Missouri-Columbia

Teaching

• History 121: History of the United States to 1877
• History 315: Military History of the United States
• History 524/64: Civil War and Reconstruction
• History 720: American History Readings Seminar
• History 723: Readings Seminar on the American Civil War
• History 730: Research Seminar in American History
• History 785: Primary Source Seminar on the Civil War in Missouri

Professional experience

Selected publications

A Union Tested: The Civil War Letters of Cimbaline and Henry Fike (University of Georgia Press, 2024)

The Border between Them: Violence and Reconciliation on the Kansas-Missouri Line (University of Missouri Press, 2007)

Research and professional interests

• The Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi West
• Reconstruction
• Civil War Memory
• Guerrilla Warfare

Awards and honors

• Summer Research Fellowship, Missouri State University, 2020
• William E. Foley Research Fellowship, Missouri State Archives, 2020
• Diversity Scholar Award, Faculty Center on Teaching and Learning, 2019
• Curtis P. Lawrence Master Teacher Award, Missouri State University Honors College, 2016
• Distinguished Dissertation Award, University of Missouri, 2005
• Phi Beta Kappa, 1998

Areas of Expertise

Media Appearances