Stephen Kantrowitz

Stephen Kantrowitz was raised in Brookline, Massachusetts. Since 1995 he has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is Professor of History. His work explores questions of race, citizenship, and political life through the lives of nineteenth-century Americans. His first book, "Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy" (UNC Press, 2000), was a New York Times Notable Book and won several scholarly awards. His second book is "More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889" (Penguin, 2012). He is co-editor of a volume of essays on the history of African-American Freemasonry, "All Men Free and Brethren" (Cornell University Press, 2013). His most recent book is "Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States" (University of North Carolina Press, 2023).