Cameron Sauers

I am a dual title PhD student in History and African American and African Diasporic Studies. Currently, I am working on a dissertation project tentatively titled “Discipline and Care: Institutionalized and Incarcerated Children in the 19th Century America.” This project explores how reformers understood childhood and how those ideas shaped the ways that children and families encountered almshouses, orphanages, and carceral sites, including prisons and Houses of Refuge. This project has been supported by the McCabe Graduate Scholarship in the Richards Civil War Era Center and the Dickerson Family Fund in the College of Liberal Arts.

My M.A. Thesis at the University of Kentucky explored the Freedmen’s Bureau and the implementation of land reform in Reconstruction South Carolina. I am currently revising this research into an article for submission.

Outside of these projects, I have a research interest in the life and works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. A forthcoming book chapter explores how Fitzgerald drew on the memory of the American Civil War in his writing. I am currently revising an accepted article on Fitzgerald’s writing process for the posthumously published The Last Tycoon.

Research Interests

19^th Century America, Civil War Era, Slavery & Emancipation.

Awards and Fellowships

Barbara Stevens Heusel & Dennis Moore Travel Grant, Southeastern American Studies Association, Fall 2023.

Raymond H. Robinson Fellowship in American History, Pennsylvania State University. 2023-2024.

History Department Nominee, Arts & Sciences Outstanding TA Award, Spring 2023.

Robert Lipman Fellowship, Department of History, University of Kentucky, Fall 2021-Spring 2023.

Kuehl-Donaldson Fellowship, F. Scott Fitzgerald Society, Summer 2021.