Professor Dr. Chris Spielvogel

Biography

Spielvogel's research has been published in national and international journals in the fields of digital media, gaming, learning, rhetoric, and American history. His recent book, Interpreting Sacred Ground: Rhetoric National Civil War Parks Battlefields (University of Alabama Press, 2013), examines the commemorative frameworks used to interpret violence and race at national Civil War battlefields and parks. Spielvogel's research projects span areas of rhetoric, Digital Humanities, and technology-based innovation, and have been funded by a variety of foundations and agencies, including the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, the Kauffman Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Institute of Education Sciences.

Research Interests