Dr. Jill Ogline Titus

Associate Director, Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College

Dr. Jill Ogline Titus is a historian and educator who serves as associate director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College and co-coordinator of the college’s Public History minor. Her work focuses on the intersections of Civil War memory, civil rights, and public history. Jill’s research has earned national recognition, including the Willie Lee Rose Prize from the Southern Association for Women Historians. Her current project examines Gettysburg’s New Deal–era Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camps. From 2007 to 2012, she was associate director of the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College, and earlier in her career she worked seasonally for the National Park Service. Jill earned her Ph.D. in history from the University of Massachusetts in 2007.