About the Presenter
Steven Krug is a PhD candidate in the University of Georgia history department with research interests in eighteenth-century Anglo-American relations and southern political economy in the Early Republic. His dissertation examines how Virginia planters construed the altered economic landscape of the new, post-Revolutionary world and how risk and uncertainty influenced their business mindset.
Steve has presented research at conferences hosted by Texas A&M University and Florida State University and his work has been published in the Atlanta Journal Constitution. He obtained his undergraduate degree in business administration at the University of Virginia and worked for many years as a financial consultant. Steve obtained his B.A. in history at Arizona State University in 2016 and his Master’s degree from the University of Georgia in 2020.