Mark W. Geiger (Ph.D., University of Missouri, 2006) is a postdoctoral fellow at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, Australia. He received his B.A. from Carleton College and his M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Before entering academics he worked in industry, primarily in financial services.
His forthcoming book, "Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300151510
You might be able to go online to MU's website and get a copy of his thesis.
Thesis Title: "Missouri's Hidden Civil War"
Jim Morris