Biography
Dr. Engel earned her Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. Her work appears in several
collections, including <i>Reconstructing Appalachia: The Civil War's Aftermath, Blood
in the Hills: A History of Violence in Appalachia, and Southern Communities: Identity,
Conflict, and Memory in the American South.</i> Her work was also featured in a special
issue of the <i>Appalachian Journal </i>that focused on women in Appalachia. Her
first book, <i>Praying with One Eye Open: Mormons and Murder in Nineteenth-Century
Appalachian Georgia </i>was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2019.
Teaching Interests
Her teaching and research interests include 19th-century U.S. history, American religious
history, and the Appalachian South.
