Dr. Chris Mackowski

Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder, Emerging Civil War

Chris Mackowski is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Emerging Civil War and series editor of the award-winning Emerging Civil War Series published by Savas Beatie. He serves as a professor in the Jandoli School of Communication at St. Bonaventure University, where he is also associate dean for undergraduate programs, and is historian-in-residence at Stevenson Ridge on the Spotsylvania battlefield in Virginia. Chris has worked as a National Park Service historian at Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park, leading tours at major battlefields including Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Wilderness, and Spotsylvania, as well as the building where Stonewall Jackson died. He has served on the boards and advisory councils of numerous preservation and historical organizations, and in 2023 was honored with the Houston Civil War Round Table’s Frank Vandiver Award and named the Copie Hill Fellow at the American Battlefield Trust.