• Ph D, History, Texas A&M University, 1994
• MA, History, Texas A&M University, 1991
• BA, History, University of Chicago, 1989

• Expanding Native Retention Efforts at the University of South Dakota, SD College Access Challenge Grant Program, (2011 - 2012)
• Tribal Youth Governance Camp, Bush Foundation, (2011 - 2011)
• Expanding Native Retention Efforts at the University of South Dakota, SD College Access Challenge Grant Program, (2011 - 2011)
• South Dakota Oral History Center Digitization Project, United States Congress, (2009 - 2012)

Citations listed below are presented in a standardized, modified format for display purposes only. They do not necessarily reflect the preferred style and conventions of the faculty member or discipline.

• Hackemer, Kurt. A Place of Their Own, 48-55. Vol. 60, Iss. 2 Arlington, VA: Civil War Times, 2021.
• Hackemer, Kurt. “Civil War Veteran Colonies in the Western Frontier”. In The War Went On: Reconsidering the Lives of Civil War Veterans. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2020.
• Hackemer, Kurt. "Union Veteran Migration Patterns to the Frontier: The Case of Dakota Territory", 84-108. Vol. 9, Iss. Spring 2019 Journal of the Civil War Era, 2019.
• Hackemer, Kurt. “War on the Waters”. In The Cambridge History of the American Civil War, editors Aaron Sheehan-Dean, 427-48. Vol. I: Military Affairs New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
• Hackemer, Kurt. “More Than Faction and Economic Interest: A Reexamination of Dakota Territory’s Political Culture During the Civil War”. In The Plains Political Tradition: Essays on South Dakota Political Culture, vol. 3., 10-31. Pierre, SD: South Dakota State Historical Society Press, 2018.
• Hackemer, Kurt. Wartime Trauma and the Lure of the Frontier: Civil War Veterans in Dakota Territory, 75-103. Vol. 81, Iss. 1 Journal of Military History, 2017.
• Hackemer, Kurt. "'The Educational Interest of the State': Vermillion, Dakota Territory's First Schoolhouse.", 17. Vol. 4 Country School Journal, 2016.
• Hackemer, Kurt. Naval Development and Warfare. In A Companion to the U.S. Civil War, editors Aaron Sheehan-Dean, 386-409. Vol. I Boston: Blackwell Publishing, 2014.
• Hackemer, Kurt. Finding Dakota Territory’s Civil War: A Call for Further Research, 147-67. Vol. 43, Iss. 2 South Dakota History, 2013.
• Hackemer, Kurt. More than a COIN Flip: Improving Honors Education With Real Time Simulations Based On Contemporary Events, 75-84. Vol. 6 Honors in Practice, 2010.
• Hackemer, Kurt. The U.S. Navy, 1860-1920. In A Companion to American Military History, Volume I: Wars, The Armed Forces, editors James C. Bradford, 388-98. Boston, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2010.
• Hackemer, Kurt, and Peterson, Douglas. The University of South Dakota Palm Initiative: A Case Study. In Mobile Learning: A Handbook for Educators and Trainers, editors Agnes Kukulska-Hulme and John Traxler, 157-63. London: RoutledgeFalmer, 2005.
• Hackemer, Kurt. “To Rescue My Native Land”: The Civil War Letters of William T. Shepherd, First Illinois Light Artillery, 344. Nashville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2005.
• Hackemer, Kurt. Marinetechnologie und wirtschaftlicher Aufschwung in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika 1860 bis 1890, [Naval Technology and Economic Prosperity in the United States of America: 1860-1890] . In Das Militär und der Aufbruch in die Moderne 1860 bis 1890: Armeen, Marinen und der Wandel von Politik, Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft in Europa, den USA sowie Japan, editors Michael Epkenhans and Gerhard P. Groß, 269-90. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2003.
• Hackemer, Kurt. The U.S. Navy and the Origins of the Military-Industrial Complex, 1847-1883, 181. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2001.
• Hackemer, Kurt. Building the Military-Industrial Relationship: The U.S. Navy and American Business, 1854-1883, 89-111. Vol. 52, Iss. 2 Newport, RI: Naval War College Review, 1999.
• Hackemer, Kurt. Response to War: Civil War Enlistment Patterns in Kenosha County, WI, 31-62. Vol. 29 Denton, TX: Military History of the West, 1999.
• Hackemer, Kurt. The Nikolaevsk Massacre and Japanese Expansion in Siberia, 601-23. Vol. 16 American Asian Review, 1998.
• Hackemer, Kurt. Strategic Dilemma: Civil-Military Friction and the Texas Coastal Campaign of 1863, 187-214. Vol. 26 Denton, TX: Military History of the West, 1996.
• Hackemer, Kurt. The U.S. Navy and the Late Nineteenth-Century Steel Industry, 703-12. Vol. 57 The Historian, 1995.
• Hackemer, Kurt. Patronage and Administrative Structure at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in the 1850s, 251-70. Vol. 22 Journal of Political and Military Sociology, 1995.
• Hackemer, Kurt. The Other Union Ironclad: The USS Galena and the Critical Summer of 1862, 226-47. Vol. 40 Civil War History, 1994.
• Hackemer, Kurt. “Veterans and the West/Empire”. In The Cambridge History of War and Society in America. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

• Edwin H. Simmons Memorial Service Award, Society for Military History, 2023
• Dorothy Schwieder Prize for the Best Article in Midwestern History for 2017, Midwestern History Association, 2018
• Truman & Beverly Schwartz Distinguished Faculty Award, College of Arts & Sciences, 2004
• Belbas-Larson Excellence in Teaching Award - Honorable Mention, University of South Dakota, 2004
• Regents Award for Research Excellence, Office of Research, USD, 2003
• Victor Gondos Memorial Service Award, Society for Military History, 2003

• Hackemer, Kurt, Chair and Commentator for "Change and Continuity in Postwar Early America: Veterans' Communities, Veterans' Wives and Widows, and the Veteran Vote, 1728-1865" session.. Presented at the 2024 Society for Military History Annual Meeting, Arlington, VA. (April 19, 2024)
• Hackemer, Kurt, Commentator for "War and 'Peace' on the Water: Maritime Interactions in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands" session.. Presented at the 2023 Society for Military History Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. (March 24, 2023)
• Hackemer, Kurt, Animated Cartoon Shorts and American Perceptions of World War II. Presented at the Edward G. Holley Memorial Lecture at the Library History Round Table, Online. (June 15, 2022)
• Hackemer, Kurt, New Directions in the Study of U.S. Civil War Veterans (Roundtable). Presented at the Society for Military History Annual Meeting, Columbus, Ohio. (May 11, 2019)
• Hackemer, Kurt, Civil War Veteran Colonies in the Western Frontier. Presented at the Society of Civil War Historians Bi-Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (June 01, 2018)
• Hackemer, Kurt, Utilizing Social Media in Academia (Roundtable). Presented at the Society for Military History Annual Meeting, Louisville, Kentucky. (April 07, 2018)
• Hackemer, Kurt, Settlement Patterns of Civil War Veterans in Dakota Territory. Presented at the Waging Peace Conference, New Orleans, LA. (September 09, 2016)
• Hackemer, Kurt, Wartime Trauma and the Lure of the Frontier: Civil War Veterans in Dakota Territory. Presented at the Society for Military History Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Canada. (April 16, 2016)
• Hackemer, Kurt, De-mystifying the Hiring Process: The View from the Other Side of the Table. Presented at the Society for Military History Annual Meeting, Montgomery, AL. (April 11, 2015)
• Hackemer, Kurt, The Civil War and Dakota Territory: A Reappraisal. Presented at the Society for Military History Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. (March 16, 2013)
• Hackemer, Kurt, Rediscovering Dakota Territory's Civil War: Historians vs. the Newspapers. Presented at the Dakota History Conference, Sioux Falls, SD. (April 29, 2011)
• Hackemer, Kurt, The Academic Hiring Process from an Administrator's Perspective. Presented at the Society for Military History Annual Meeting, Lexington, VA. (May 21, 2010)
• Hackemer, Kurt, The Evolution and Economic Impact of the Late Nineteenth Century Naval-Industrial Relationship. Presented at the Society for Military History Annual Meeting, Frederick, MD. (April 21, 2007)
• Hackemer, Kurt, Naval Technology and Economic Prosperity in the United States of America, 1860-1890. Presented at the 44th International Symposium on Military History, Reinbek, Germany. (September 12, 2002)
• Hackemer, Kurt, Rethinking Walt Whitman: Drum-Taps and the Realities of War. Presented at the Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, Cortland, NY. (October 29, 2001)
• Hackemer, Kurt, Integrating Technology into the Classroom Environment. Presented at the 34th Annual Northern Great Plains History Conference, St. Cloud, MN. (October 09, 1999)
• Hackemer, Kurt, The U.S. Navy, Origins of the Military-Industrial Complex, and the Integration of New Technology into the Fleet, 1854-1883. Presented at the Society for Military History Annual Meeting, Wheaton, IL. (April 25, 1998)
• Hackemer, Kurt, Summary and Descriptive Statistics and Civil War Enlistment Patterns. Presented at the Society for Military History Annual Meeting, Arlington, VA. (April 21, 1996)
• Hackemer, Kurt, Managing New Technology in the Antebellum and Civil War Navy. Presented at the Twelfth Naval History Symposium, Annapolis, MD. (October 26, 1995)
• Hackemer, Kurt, Civil War Enlistment Patterns in Kenosha County, Wisconsin. Presented at the Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX. (March 24, 1995)
• Hackemer, Kurt, The Brooklyn Navy Yard: Structure of Power, 1850-1860. Presented at the Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX. (March 24, 1995)
• Hackemer, Kurt, Economic and Ethnic Factors in Civil War Enlistment in Kenosha County, Wisconsin. Presented at the Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX. (April 01, 1994)
• Hackemer, Kurt, The Role of Civilian/Military Relations in the Conduct of the Texas Coastal Campaign of 1863. Presented at the Mid-America Conference on History, Fayetteville, AR. (September 21, 1990)