Peter Kastor
Samuel K. Eddy Professor, Washington University in St. Louis
Peter Kastor is a professor of history and American culture studies at Washington University in St. Louis, where he is the inaugural Samuel K. Eddy Professor and Associate Vice Dean of Research in Arts & Sciences. He studies the politics of the early American republic and the long history of the American Presidency. He is the author or editor of eight books, along with numerous articles and essays.
In addition to his academic writing, he has been a regular guest on St. Louis Public Radio and has written for outlets including The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, The Conversation, and Fortune. Two of his courses have been featured on C-SPAN’s Lectures in History. In addition to participating in Washington University’s Brookings Executive Education, which provides ongoing career development for emerging leaders in the federal government, he has contributed to professional development programming for groups including the St. Louis Public Schools, the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, and the Air War College. An active contributor to numerous local organizations, he is currently vice chair of the board of trustees at the Missouri Historical Society.
Professor Kastor is a former Digital Innovation Fellow at the American Council of Learned Societies and is now a TGI associate at the Taylor Geospatial Institute. He is currently completing a major digital project that that reconstructs the early federal workforce.
