Shae Smith Cox is an Assistant Professor of History at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. LSU Press published her first book “The Fabric of Civil War Society: Uniforms, Badges, and Flags, 1859-1939,” in February 2024. She earned her Ph.D. in American History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in May 2020 with a minor in Public History. She studies 19th century race and gender with an emphasis on material culture and memory of the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction.

Her second book project is titled ‘The Suffering and Groans of the Wounded and Dying Were Terrible to See and Hear’: Auditory Experiences of Civil War Suffering. It examines the experiences of Civil War surgeons, nurses, and attendants in hospital settings.