Grant Stanton is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Pennsylvania studying the American Revolution. Stanton has a forthcoming article in Early American Studies, a chapter under revision for an edited volume on the famed freedom trial, Somerset v. Steuart, related to the Massachusetts freedom petitioners. Stanton is also developing a curated webpage on the freedom petitioners for the Slavery, Law, and Power Project and op-eds in the Boston Globe and Washington Post.
Stanton's research also includes the history of Black education in early America. Stanton has developed a dataset that is uploaded to the Magazine of Early American Datasets and will be included in an article for the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, both undertaken in collaboration with John C. Van Horne, Director Emeritus of the Library Company of Philadelphia.
Lastly, Stanton is currently writing his dissertation, which studies the role of insults as a primary cause of the American Revolution.