Antoinette G. van Zelm, Ph.D.
Assistant Director at the Center for Historic Preservation
antoinette.vanzelm@mtsu.edu
Dr. Antoinette G. van Zelm provides research, writing, and editing assistance to organizations that partner with the Center. She administers the Tennessee Century Farms program and writes short histories of all of the newly certified farms. She helps manage the collaborative partnerships between the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area and partners throughout the state. Dr. van Zelm works with the CHP’s graduate research assistants on projects and edits the Center’s blog, Southern Rambles. She also works on Civil War-related educational materials for the Teaching with Primary Sources-Middle Tennessee State University program and edits various documents created for the program.
Dr. van Zelm received her Ph.D. in American History from the College of William & Mary, completing her dissertation on the transition from slavery to freedom among women in Virginia during and after the Civil War. She is active in the Southern Association for Women Historians (SAWH) and served as president in 2023. She has written about the transition from slavery to freedom in both Tennessee and Virginia in several publications. She has also presented and published her research on Tennessee women’s involvement in the Woman’s Relief Corps, the women’s auxiliary of the Grand Army of the Republic. Currently, Dr. van Zelm is working on a book that will include transcriptions of three diaries written by women in Murfreesboro during and after the Civil War.
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