Jason Stacy
Distinguished Research ProfessorDirector, Social Science Education
Office Phone: 618-650-3966
Location: Peck Hall, Rm. 1225
Email: jstacy@siue.edu
Jason Stacy is Distinguished Research Professor of History and Director of Social Science Education at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He earned his Ph.D. in History from Loyola University Chicago and specializes in the history of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America, print culture, and intellectual history. His research examines how journalism, literature, and education have shaped democratic identity, public discourse, and collective memory in the United States. In recent years, his scholarship has focused on the cultural and intellectual history of the Midwestern small town.
He is the author of Walt Whitman's Multitudes: Labor Reform and Persona in Whitman's Journalism and the First Leaves of Grass, 1840–1855 (2008), Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town (2021), and, with Stephanie Blalock, Kevin McMullen, and Stefan Schöberlein, the forthcoming Walt Whitman, Journalist: Beyond the Poetic Foreground, 1856–1860. He is also co-editor, with Charles Delgadillo, of Heartland Utopia: William Allen White on the Ideal Midwestern Town (2026) and an editor for the Walt Whitman Archive.
