Stuart Marshall

Stuart Marshall is an ethnohistorian of the Native South specializing in histories of Cherokee resistance in Appalachia. As Postdoctoral Associate with the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies, Marshall focuses on Native America in the Civil War Era. Since completing his Ph.D. in 2023 at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, he was Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of the South. His first book project, “The Age of Junaluska,” is a new history of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians which centers their struggles for citizenship and sovereignty within the national history of disunion, Reconstruction, and Civil War memory.

As a team member of Eastern Cherokee Histories in Translation (ECHT), Marshall collaborates with colleagues at Western Carolina University and Native speakers to interpret Cherokee syllabary documents. With a background in public history and strengths in digital history, Marshall has developed classroom projects with partners including the National Trail of Tears Association. Marshall’s teaching focus includes courses on the Native South, Civil War Era, Native citizenship, Indian Removal, and Indian wars.