Margaret Storey is Professor of History and Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (LAS). She teaches courses on historical methods, the history of the American Civil War, Reconstruction, and the South. Her scholarship on the Civil War era has focused on the dynamics of military occupation, the political culture of loyalty and disloyalty, and the ways that kinship, race, and gender shaped the lived experience of the Civil War. As Associate Dean, she works closely with faculty, staff, and academic leaders to facilitate and support a range of strategic curricular, programmatic, and scholarly initiatives in the College of LAS.