Advisor:
Dr. Simon Middleton
Current Research:
Early America; United States; Material Culture
Bio
Evan Stackpole is a History PhD candidate at William and Mary. He received his BA from the University of California Davis and his MA from Colorado State University. His master's thesis, titled “'Suitable for All Parts': The Transformation of Menswear in the Early American Republic, 1780-1830,” examines men's fashion from the perspective of ordinary laborers and farmers, and argues that such men in the street were in fact critical to some of the major sartorial and economic developments in male dress during this period. An article based on this research, "'Revolt into Style': Working-Class Dress and the Transformation of American Menswear, 1780–1810," is set to be published in a forthcoming issue of the journal Dress. Evan has presented his research at various conferences, including the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, the Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and the Costume Society of America. In 2025 and 2026, Evan served as the tutor for Historic Deerfield’s Summer Fellowship Program in history and material culture studies. Evan is also a member of the Southwestern Chapter of the Costume Society of America's regional student cohort. As a student of dress, Evan has assisted the Avenir Museum of Design and Merchandising in Fort Collins with exhibition text and planning. He hopes to continue this object-grounded research in his doctoral dissertation.
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