Taylor Stoermer

Taylor Stoermer, director of strategy, development, and interpretation at Historic Huguenot Street, attended the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Virginia, where he earned his PhD in early American history. As a researcher, lecturer and educator, teaching courses on topics such as British America, Thomas Jefferson, and the American Revolution, Dr. Stoermer has been the chief historian at Colonial Williamsburg, awarded fellowships and awards from institutions such as Yale University, Harvard University, the Huntington Library, the Virginia Historical Society, the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello, and at Brown University, where he was appointed an Invited Research Scholar from 2009 to 2012. His academic research focuses on the relationship between political economics, political culture, and the American Revolution. He writes and speaks widely on topics related to the American Founding era and appears regularly in print and on television, most recently on the History Channel, the BBC, and C-SPAN (for which he is an adviser for history content).