Dr. George Ellenberg joined the University of West Florida (UWF) history faculty in the fall of 1994. He received his B.A. and M.A. from Clemson University and his Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky. He teaches courses in southern history and military history. Dr. Ellenberg has won numerous teaching awards while at UWF. He served in various administrative positions in the College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Office from 2000 to 2009. Dr. Ellenberg was named Interim Associate Vice-Provost for Planning, Assessment, and Institutional Effectiveness in July 2009. Dr. Ellenberg was appointed Vice Provost for Academic Affairs in February 2010.

Dr. Ellenberg's primary research area is southern agriculture, especially draft animal use and mechanization. His book, Mule South to Tractor South: Mules, Machines, and the Transformation of the Cotton South (2007), was published by The University of Alabama Press. The book was selected by the press' Faculty Editorial Board as recipient of the Anne B. and James B. McMillan Prize for the manuscript chosen "as most deserving in Alabama or Southern history or culture." He is currently working on an article that examines sharecropping in post-Civil War Georgia.

Dr. Ellenberg also teaches as a Fleet Professor of Strategy and Policy for the Naval War College at Naval Air Station Pensacola and is an alumnus of The Summer Institute in Military History held at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

During the 2007-2008 academic year, Ellenberg served as an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, Georgia, where he studied higher education administration, policy, and leadership.

Dr. Ellenberg and his wife Karen are parents of three sons, Bolton, Easton, and Henry.