Postdoctoral Fellowship

Stuart Marshall named 2025 Postdoctoral Associate 

Stuart Marshall is Postdoctoral Associate at the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies, effective August 2025. After completing his PhD in 2023 at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Sewanee—The University of the South.

Marshall’s in-progress book, “The Age of Junaluska: Eastern Cherokee Sovereignty in the Long Civil War Era,” places Cherokee voices at the center of the national debates around citizenship, disunion, and governance. The study illustrates the centrality of the Civil War for the Cherokees who remained in the Southeast after Removal, following the veterans who organized a new tribal government during Reconstruction and their use of Civil War memory for their own political goals. Marshall also collaborates with colleagues in Eastern Cherokee Histories in Translation (ECHT) as a co-editor for the project’s first volume, which will feature a collection of Civil War letters written in Cherokee syllabary.

Previous Postdoctoral Fellows

The Center sponsors a postdoctoral fellowship to support the professional development of a recent Ph.D. The fellow spends two years at Virginia Tech, during which time they teach courses in the history department, makes significant progress on a scholarly project, organizes an academic conference or an outreach program, and assists the Center director with Center activities. The fellowship is designed to benefit those pursuing tenure-track positions and/or alt-ac career paths.

Click here to learn more about previous VCCWS Postdoctoral fellows.