Sandra Moats
Historian/Author
Sandra Moats is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Her research focuses on early American politics and culture, with a particular emphasis on presidential history. She received her doctorate from UCLA in 2001.
Among her publications are two books and numerous articles, including Navigating Neutrality: Early American Governance in the Turbulent Atlantic (University of Virginia Press, 2021) and Celebrating the Republic: Presidential Ceremony and Popular Sovereignty, from Washington to Monroe (Northern Illinois University Press, 2010). Her essay on James Monroe’s second Inaugural Address will appear in the forthcoming My Fellow Americans, a collection devoted to presidential addresses from Washington to Biden. (Oxford University Press, July 2024). https://global.oup.com/academic/product/my-fellow-americans-9780197644997?cc=us&lang=en&
She has held fellowships at George Washington’s Mount Vernon and at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
She is currently working on a third book, “Global at the Founding: Revolutionary Treaties, Commercial Consuls and the Origins of American Diplomacy,” which explores the significant role consuls played in pre-20th century American foreign policy.
The Neutrality Crisis
The Whiskey Rebellion