Background

Stephen J. Legawiec graduated with honors from Boston College in 2006.  His primary research interests include the nineteenth-century American South, the Civil War, and Southern memory studies.  He is currently researching the effects of agricultural reform, developing infrastructure, and the Civil War on mastery and slave life in Fluvanna County, Virginia.  Steve is a native of Rochester, New York and is a devotee of bluegrass music and an avid outdoorsman.