Riley Sullivan

Riley Sullivan was born and raised in Houston, Texas. He earned his M.A. in History at Sam Houston State University and is currently a Professor of History at San Jacinto College in Pasadena, TX. In this role, he teaches a service-learning course that takes students out of the classroom to the San Jacinto Battleground where he engages in on-site historical learning.

He has also published works on Civil War Memory that have appeared in the Tennessee Historical Quarterly. He is also a doctoral student in the Department of History at the University of Houston where he is conducting research into the experiences of Civil War veterans. When not reading about the Civil War, he loves to spend his free time with his wife and daughter.