Biography

Madelaine Setiawan is a PhD candidate at Texas A&M University. She specializes in the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction, War and Memory, and 19th-century Women and Gender. Her research has been supported by the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies, and the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, among others. Her Master’s thesis, “‘Trust to Us, the Union Men of the South’: The 1866 Southern Loyalist Convention and the Fight for Reconstruction” highlights the role of Southern Unionists and their rhetoric during Reconstruction. For her dissertation, Madelaine examines the ways in which Southern Unionist women contributed to the wartime effort and were remembered, commemorated, or forgotten afterward.

Prior to Texas A&M, Madelaine graduated Summa Cum Laude from Lee University with a BA in History and Political Science. She currently holds the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts Fellowship from the Massachusetts Historical Society.