Evan Stewart
Graduate Student in History
Status: Post-Qualification ABD
Status: Post-Qualification ABD
Evan is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Washington University in St. Louis. He studies the history of early America with an emphasis on antebellum political culture. He is particularly interested in examining the varied forms of opposition to Jacksonianism in this period, ranging from organized political parties to legal challenges and individual activism.
His dissertation project explores the relationship between the United States and the rest of the Americas in the 1820s. It recovers a shared political crisis which faced the Western Hemisphere, as the US and the newly independent Spanish American republics confronted similar struggles between liberal constitutionalism and militarist populism.
Evan received a BA in History and Political Science from American University in 2018, and an MA in History from the College of William & Mary in 2022. Before studying history at the graduate level he taught middle school social studies and science for two years.