Kirk Savage

Kirk Savage is the William S. Dietrich II Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Over many years his research has concentrated on the study of public monuments, especially those dedicated to the American Civil War. His Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape (2009), and Standing Soldier, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America (1997) both won national awards, most notably the 2010 Charles C. Eldridge Prize and the 1998 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize. He is currently at work on a new book on the memorialization and naming of the civil war dead.