Dr. Paul Quigley is the Director of the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies and the James I. Robertson, Jr. Associate Professor of Civil War History in the Department of History at Virginia Tech. He is a native of Manchester, England, and holds degrees from Lancaster University in England and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Dr. Quigley has written many articles on various aspects of the Civil War that have appeared in such notable journals as the Journal of Southern History, and the Journal of the Civil War Era, as well as newspapers such as the Roanoke Times, the Richmond Times Dispatch, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. He is also on the editorial board of the journal The Civil War.

Dr. Quigley’s most noted work is the subject of his lecture to the Roundtable. His book, Shifting Grounds: Nationalism and the American South, won the British Association for American Studies Book Prize, the Jefferson Davis Award from the Museum of the Confederacy, and the Albert Lee Shrum Award from the Mu Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. He is currently working on a book for Oxford University Press on the life of Preston Brooks, the South Carolina Congressman who achieved notoriety by caning Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner on the Senate floor in 1856. ■