{"id":56,"date":"2021-03-27T15:57:15","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T15:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/?page_id=56"},"modified":"2025-07-03T17:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T17:38:09","slug":"our-staff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/our-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our 2025 seminar faculty include experienced classroom teachers and nationally-recognized scholars.<\/h2>\n

FACULTY<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
\"Prof.<\/a>
Professor Pinsker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Matthew Pinsker<\/strong>, the faculty director of the Dickinson Knowledge for Freedom program, holds the Pohanka Chair for Civil War History and serves as Director of the House Divided Project at Dickinson College<\/a>. He graduated from Harvard College (1990) before receiving a D.Phil from the University of Oxford (1995).\u00a0 He has written two books and numerous articles on Civil War era topics with a focus on the political career of Abraham Lincoln and on the general topic of resistance to slavery.\u00a0 He has held visiting fellowships at the New America Foundation, US Army War College and National Constitution Center.\u00a0 Pinsker serves on the board of advisors for several major historical organizations including Ford\u2019s Theatre Society, President Lincoln\u2019s Cottage, and the Gettysburg Foundation.\u00a0 \u00a0He has also recently been featured in an online video series for the History Channel called, “Sound Smart.”<\/p>\n