Rate My Professor Scott Stabler

Stabler's research focuses on the U.S. Civil War era, Reconstruction, African American troops, and U.S. Indian policy, particularly through figures like Oliver O. Howard and Ulysses S. Grant. His publications include the forthcoming book Onward Christian General: Oliver Otis Howard’s Civil Wars and Postbellum America (University of Kansas Press); “The Odd Couple: William T. Sherman, O.O. Howard, Loyalty, Soldiery, and the Freedpeople” (with Eleanor Gleason), The Journal of America’s Military Past (2021); “Slave to Soldier: United States Colored Troops in the West During the Civil War” (with Martin J. Hershock), Critical Race Studies Across Disciplines (2021); “‘Standing on the Banks’: African American Troops in the Vicksburg Campaign” (with Martin J. Hershock), Vicksburg Besieged (2020); “Two Paths to Peace: Oliver Otis Howard, Negotiator to Cochise and Joseph,” Military History of the West (2018); and co-editor of ABC-Clio’s Ideas and Movements that Shaped America, 3 vols. (2015). He has contributed to editorial roles as Book Review Editor for H-CivWar and referee for journals like Oregon Historical Quarterly. Awards include the GVSU Alumni Association Educator of the Year (2021), Inclusion and Equity Faculty Fellow (2018–2020), Mel Miller Mentor of the Year from the Michigan Council for the Social Studies (2007), and Grand Valley State University Research Grant (2010). Stabler has presented at conferences such as the Western History Association and Organization of American Historians.