Emma Stewart

Ph.D. Student

Contact
Department of History
Website: www.stewartemma.com
Email: estewa7@clemson.edu

Education
BA, University of Central Oklahoma (2023); MA, University of Central Oklahoma (2025)

Research Interests
U.S. History 1945-1975; U.S. History since 1975; Women, Gender, Sexuality; Oral History; LGBTQ; Social Movements; Digital Methods

Emma Stewart is a Ph.D. student in Digital History at Clemson University. She earned both her B.A. and M.A. in History from the University of Central Oklahoma, where she also minored in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her M.A. thesis, “Back to the Land of Exclusion: A History of Lesbian Separatism, Community, and Trans Marginalization in the United States, 1970s–2020s,” passed with distinction. Emma’s research focuses on narratives of women, gender, and sexuality in the twentieth-century United States, with emphasis on feminist and queer movements. She would like to explore further the lesbian separatist movement and how its actors envisioned alternative community, rurality, and gender identity. Engaging both feminist and queer historiography, her work examines how these radical communities fit into broader U.S. activist movements.