A fellow’s forum with Steven G. Krug, PhD candidate, Department of History, University of Georgia, from June 24, 2024.
About the Presentation
Steven G. Krug's current research project is associated with his dissertation which considers how Revolutionary Era Virginia planters conceived of their business enterprises and how they managed the variety of risks associated with acquiring and protecting wealth in a transitioning economy. The research will examine plantation owners’ understanding of the economic and business environment after independence, including specific micro- and macro-level risk factors related to the agricultural economy that influenced nearly every business or financial decision they were likely to make. Conservative elites and yeoman farmers alike sought to protect their existing wealth (and the status that went with it) against risky ventures that might result not only in personal losses but could destabilize the agrarian world in the midst of its post-war reconstruction.
About Steven G. Krug
Steven G. Krug is a PhD student in the University of Georgia history department with research interests in eighteenth-century Anglo-American relations and southern political economy in the Early Republic. Krug 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. In the summer of 2023 Krug served as an Education intern at Mount Vernon analyzing guest visitation patterns at the historic home and assisting in exhibit redesign, and he works periodically as a historical interpreter at antebellum homes in Georgia. Prior to graduate school, Krug obtained his undergraduate degree in business administration at the University of Virginia and worked for many years as a financial consultant. He obtained his B.A. in history at Arizona State University in 2016 and his Master’s degree from the University of Georgia in 2020. Krug currently works as a graduate assistant in the school’s history department.