Daniel Krebs
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Gottschalk Hall 102C |
Daniel Krebs (curriculum vitae), originally from Germany, joined our faculty as Assistant Professor in 2007. He specializes in colonial & revolutionary American and military history. He is also the faculty adviser for Phi Alpha Theta, the History Honor Society at the University of Louisville.
His research focuses on the question of how warfare shaped early America and the Atlantic world. In particular, he studies the daily life of common German prisoners of war during the American War of Independence. His book manuscript, entitled A Generous and Merciful Enemy: Life and Treatment of German Prisoners of War during the American War of Independence, 1775-1783, is submitted and under contract with Oklahoma University Press.
He earned his Ph.D. from Emory University in 2007. In Spring 2010, he was Donald L. Saunders Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, R.I. His dissertation was awarded the 2008 Parker-Schmitt Dissertation Award for the Best Dissertation in European History by the European History Section of the Southern Historical Association. In 2005 - 2006, he was the Society of the Cincinnati and Friends of the MCEAS Dissertation Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. At Emory University, his dissertation was awarded the J. Russell Major and Blair Major Dissertation Award in Early Modern European History.
He teaches (click for sample syllabi of past courses):
Colonial America, 1500 to 1763
The Era of the American Revolution, 1754 to 1815
Studies in Western and American Military History since the Late Middle Ages
American and U.S. Military History, 1600 to 2010
Early American History, to 1877
Staff Rides:
- Perryville Battlefield 2008: Picture 1 and Picture 2
- Perryville Battlefield 2009: Picture 1
- Perryville Battlefield 2011:
