Cameron Sauers is a dual-title PhD Candidate in the departments of History and African American and African diasporic studies at Penn State, where he was previously the Robinson Fellow in American History. Currently, Cameron is the editorial assistant to the Journal of the Civil War Era. Cameron received his undergraduate degree in history from Gettysburg College and his master’s degree from the University of Kentucky. His research on Civil War memory and the life of author F. Scott Fitzgerald will be published this year in the Routledge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald. Cameron’s in-progress dissertation project explores the lives and labors of institutionalized and incarcerated children in 19th-century America, a project that has been supported by the Richards Civil War Era Center and the College of Liberal Arts at Penn State.