Jason Stacy

Jason Stacy is Distinguished Research Professor of History and Social Science Pedagogy at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He has written and edited books on Walt Whitman, including Walt Whitman’s Multitudes: Labor Reform and Persona in Whitman’s Journalism and the First Leaves of Grass (2008), Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition (2009), and Walt Whitman's Selected Journalism with Douglas Noverr (2015). For over a decade he has also served as a contributing editor to the Walt Whitman Archive. His research on Midwestern authors includes Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town (2021) and Heartland Utopia: William Allen White on the Ideal Midwestern Town, edited with Charles Delgadillo (2026). His co-authored textbook on US history with Matthew Ellington, Fabric of a Nation (2024), is in its second edition.