Taylor Stoermer
Teacher and Writer in Providence, Rhode Island
A native of Baltimore, Maryland, I was educated at Harvard University, Tulane University School of Law, the Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Virginia, where I completed my Ph.D. in History, with a focus on early America, under the supervision of Peter Onuf and Jack Greene. I am now Lecturer in Public History at Johns Hopkins University, Special Adviser to the Walt Disney Companies, and Visiting Curator for Public History at the Newport Historical Society.
Before coming to Johns Hopkins, I taught Public History at Harvard. I was also a Lecturer at the University of Virginia, and a Fellow at the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale University, the Huntington Library, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the Virginia Historical Society, the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello, and at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, after which I was appointed an Invited Scholar there for two years. Moreover, I participated in the International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World at Harvard, was a visiting scholar at Trinity Hall of Cambridge University, have directed the Seminar on Transatlantic History with Oxford University, the University of Edinburgh, and U of Va., was for three-and-a-half years the chief historian of Colonial Williamsburg, directed a recent strategic planning process at Historic Huguenot Street in New Paltz, N.Y., and was briefly an Adjunct Professor at SUNY Ulster.
Before entering academic life, I had a career in national politics, working as a political and policy advisor, speechwriter, spokesperson, and legislative aide on Capitol Hill and in several congressional campaigns, including one that I managed in the 2000 election cycle. I also served as the communications director for the national League of Conservation Voters for several years, during which I regularly appeared in print and on television, including Fox, MSNBC, and CNN.
In his spare time, Taylor I am an avid fan of the Baltimore Orioles, professional tennis, and equestrian sports.