Michael T. Bernath

Ph.D., Harvard University (2005);
Charlton W. Tebeau Assistant Professor

e-mail: mbernath@miami.edu
Office: Rm. 612 Ashe
Phone: (305) 284-4554

      Michael Bernath specializes in 19th-Century American history with particular emphases on the Civil War Era, the South, and 19th-Century cultural and intellectual history.  Born in Maryland, he grew up in rural Pennsylvania.  He received his Bachelor’s degree from Brown University in 1997 and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 2005.  Prior to coming to Miami, he taught at Emmanuel College in Boston and at the Harvard University Extension School.

      Currently, Professor Bernath is at work revising his manuscript, “Confederate Minds: The Struggle for Intellectual Independence in the Civil War South,” which is under contract with the University of North Carolina Press.  The book examines the rise of Confederate cultural nationalism and the wartime efforts to construct an autonomous and distinctly southern intellectual and literary culture. Professor Bernath teaches courses on the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Rise of Sectionalism, the Old South as well as general topics in 19th-Century intellectual and cultural history.