Dr. Austin Stewart is a Visiting Assistant Professor of History in the Department of History at the University of Mississippi.
Research Interests
Dr. Stewart's main areas of historical expertise and interests include Revolutionary America, the Early Republic, the Early American West and Native America.
Biography
Dr. Austin Stewart is currently serving as a visiting professor of history at the University of Mississippi. He previously held a postdoctoral fellow position at the Kinder Institute On Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri.
Compositions
Selected Article(s):
Opinion | ‘No Kings’ and the False Equivalency of Patriotism (2025, Mississippi Free Press)
Publications in Progress:
Book Manuscript: Our Ground: Cherokee Migration and the Making of Property, Nations, and Race in the Early Nineteenth-Century West (Under Contract/University of Nebraska Press)
Article Manuscript: "Cherokee Masculinity in Motion: Hunting, Warfare, Kinship, and Withdrawal in the West, 1775-1830," in Gender in the Native South: A Reinterpretation of Women, Men, and Two-Spirit Peoples Before 1850, eds. Jennifer McCutchen and Jamie Mize.
(Forthcoming/University of Nebraska Press, Spring 2027)
Article Manuscript: "Cherokee Territoriality and Ideas of National Space in Revolutionary America," in Americans in Revolution, eds. Tom Cutterham and Sarah Georgini (Forthcoming/University of Virginia Press, Spring 2027)
Courses Taught
- HIST 1300 Intro to US History to 1877
- HIST 1310 Intro to US History Since 1877
Education
B.A. American History, Cleveland State University (2010)
M.A. History, Cleveland State University (2011)
Ph.D. History, Lehigh University (2022)