Cara Rogers Stevens is an Associate Professor of History at Ashland University, where she also co-directs the Ashbrook Scholar Program. She has a master鈥檚 degree in history from the University of Texas at Dallas and a Ph.D. from Rice University. Her research, which focuses on race, slavery, and freedom in the Jeffersonian Age, has been published by the聽Journal of Southern History听补苍诲听American Political Thought, and聽she has also written for聽the聽Journal of the Early Republic听补苍诲听Law & Liberty. She won the American Political Science Association’s award for Best Article in American Political Thought in 2022.
Her first book,聽聽(Kansas University Press, 2024), examines what聽Jefferson did鈥攁nd did not鈥攄o to end slavery and bring equality to America.
