EMILY LAPISARDI
Emily Lapisardi is the editor of Rose Greenhow's My Imprisonment: An Annotated Edition, which debuted as the highest-ranking new release in Amazon.com's U. S. Civil War Women's History category in the spring of 2021, and has presented first-person portrayals of historical figures in fourteen states and the District of Columbia. She is also the Director of Musical Activities for the Catholic Chapel of the United States Military Academy (West Point, NY), where she directs the West Point Catholic Chapel Choir for services at the Academy and touring appearances including the nationally-televised funeral liturgies of medal of honor recipient Chaplain Emil Kapaun.
She has portrayed Civil War spy and diplomat Rose Greenhow at a range of venues including the International Spy Museum, Manassas Museum System, Manassas National Battlefield Park, the Lomas Center (Gettysburg, PA), Petersburg National Battlefield Park, book launch events with author Ann Blackman for her 2005 biography Wild Rose: Civil War Spy, and for numerous historical societies, reenactments, and round tables. Recent and upcoming speaking engagements include the Dan Sickles Civil War Round Table, Cape Fear Civil War Round Table, C. S. S. Neuse Interpretive Center, Seward House Museum, the Company of Military Historians General Meeting, the annual conference of the Society for Women and the Civil War, and the American Civil War Museum at Appomattox.
Emily also has extensive experience as a singer, actor, dancer, organist, and pianist. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from West Virginia University (where she was named a WVU Foundation Outstanding Senior and received the university’s nomination for the Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships) and a Masters degree in Sacred Music from Duquesne University. She has performed internationally as a singer and ballet dancer and has also presented at national and international conferences. As a musicologist, she received the Communal Studies Association’s research fellowship for her work on the hymnody of American communal societies. Additionally, Emily founded the vocal music program, demonstrated sericulture, and served on the board at Old Economy Village, where she was named Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission 2006 Volunteer of the Year.
She has portrayed Civil War spy and diplomat Rose Greenhow at a range of venues including the International Spy Museum, Manassas Museum System, Manassas National Battlefield Park, the Lomas Center (Gettysburg, PA), Petersburg National Battlefield Park, book launch events with author Ann Blackman for her 2005 biography Wild Rose: Civil War Spy, and for numerous historical societies, reenactments, and round tables. Recent and upcoming speaking engagements include the Dan Sickles Civil War Round Table, Cape Fear Civil War Round Table, C. S. S. Neuse Interpretive Center, Seward House Museum, the Company of Military Historians General Meeting, the annual conference of the Society for Women and the Civil War, and the American Civil War Museum at Appomattox.
Emily also has extensive experience as a singer, actor, dancer, organist, and pianist. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from West Virginia University (where she was named a WVU Foundation Outstanding Senior and received the university’s nomination for the Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships) and a Masters degree in Sacred Music from Duquesne University. She has performed internationally as a singer and ballet dancer and has also presented at national and international conferences. As a musicologist, she received the Communal Studies Association’s research fellowship for her work on the hymnody of American communal societies. Additionally, Emily founded the vocal music program, demonstrated sericulture, and served on the board at Old Economy Village, where she was named Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission 2006 Volunteer of the Year.