Dr. Jeffery S. Prushankin (University of Arkansas 2000) is the Visiting Professor in Civil War Era Studies at Millersville University. Dr. Prushankin is also a lecturer in American History at Penn State University's Abington College and an adjunct professor at Montgomery County Community College. His specialization is the Civil War.

In 2006 he received the Penn State Abington Special Recognition Award for developing and implementing a Gettysburg Staff-Ride for students. In 2009 he chaired a panel for the Pennsylvania Historical Association on methodologies for teaching the history of Gettysburg.

Recent publications include A Crisis in Confederate Command: Richard Taylor, Edmund Kirby-Smith, and the Army of the Trans-Mississippi (2005) and They Came to Butcher our People: The Civil War in the West in Struggle for a Vast Future: The American Civil War (2006). Recent papers include Politics as War by Other Means: The Special Louisiana Congressional Election of 1864, presented to the Society of Civil War Historians in June 2008 and If you give us guns, we will fight; Black Southerners and the Confederacy, presented at the University of Mississippi's Conference on the Civil War, May, 2006. He is currently writing a biography of Edmund Kirby-Smith.