Madelaine Setiawan

Madelaine Setiawan is a PhD student at Texas A&M University who specialized in the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction Era and Memory. Her Master’s thesis examines the crucial, yet forgotten role of Southern Unionists in the 1866 Southern Loyalist Convention that altered Reconstruction. For her dissertation, Madelaine is currently working on the memory of Southern Unionist Women through the Southern Claims Commission records. Prior to Texas A&M, Madelaine graduated Summa Cum Laude from Lee University with a BA in History and Political Science.

Chair: Dr. Lorien Foote