About

Buck T. Foster, PhD

I was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and was raised in Booneville, Arkansas, where I left to attend the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. I received a BA and MA from the U of A in American History, emphasizing 19th-century Southern History. I moved to Starkville, Mississippi, in 1998 to study under Dr. John Marszalek at Mississippi State University. I completed my dissertation on William T. Sherman’s Mississippi Campaign in 2003, which became a published book in 2006. After completing my PhD at State, I moved to Wiggins, Mississippi, and worked with Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, where I remained for five years. In 2008, I returned to Arkansas and received an appointment as a Visiting Professor at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway. I continue to teach Arkansas History, American Military History, the Old South, Conservation History, and American History survey courses at UCA.

I have served on the Board of Trustees for the Arkansas Historical Association, the Prairie Grove Battlefield Commission, and the Arkansas Humanities Council.

I have written for Greenhead Magazine, Arkansas Wildlife Magazine, the Arkansas Historical Quarterly, the Journal of Southern History, the Military Historical Quarterly, Blue and Gray Magazine, the Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, the Fort Smith Journal, the Drew County Journal, the Booneville Democrat, and the Arkansas Democrat Gazette.

My monograph, So Great Was the Slaughter: Market Hunters, Sportsmen, and Wildlife Conservation in Arkansas, is out. Visit the University of Alabama Press or Amazon to make a purchase.

I am an avid duck hunter. I enjoy good conversation, good books, and a good hunt.