Noah Crawford

Noah Crawford

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Noah F. Crawford is a PhD candidate at Texas A&M University who studies the social history and military history of the American Civil War era. His research focuses on refugees during that conflict—who they were, how they lived, and the ways in which they influenced the course of the war. His master’s thesis—“’A Matter of Increasing Perplexity’: Public Perception, Treatment, and Military Influence of Refugees in the Shenandoah Valley During the American Civil War”—won the Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award at Virginia Tech. Fellowships through the Nau Center for Civil War History and the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies provided for archival research that yielded conference presentations with the Society for Military History, the East Texas Historical Association, and the Center for Civil War Research. Papers presented at these meetings demonstrated how refugee studies can serve as a vehicle for synthesizing disparate aspects of Civil War history including race, diplomacy, gender, and military operations.