Dr Ian Stewart

Dr Ian Stewart

Research Fellow (University of Edinburgh’s Historical Links to African Enslavement and Colonialism), 2023-2025

Home Institution: University of Edinburgh

Dr Ian Stewart is a historian of Britain and Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He joined IASH in September 2023 on the project ‘The University of Edinburgh’s Links to Slavery and Colonialism’. His research will focus on the university and the East India Company (c.1765-c.1833). Before coming to Edinburgh, he worked at the LSE, QMUL, UCL and Cambridge, and has published primarily on ideas of nation, race and language in the decades around the French Revolution.