Cara Rogers Stevens
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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’s degree in history from the University of Texas at Dallas and a Ph.D. from Rice University.
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Her research, which focuses on race and slavery in the Jeffersonian Age, has been published by American Political Thought and the Journal of Southern History; she has also written for Law and Liberty and the Journal of the Early Republic. She won the Best Article in American Political Thought award from the American Political Science Association in 2022. Her first book, Thomas Jefferson and the Fight Against Slavery, examines what Jefferson did—and did not—do to end slavery and bring equality to America. It recently received the Herbert Storing book prize from the Ciceronian Society (2025).
