The fellowships are the only support for education research, nationally or internationally, for recent recipients of the doctorate. Stevens is one of 33 fellows selected from a pool of more than 200 scholars in education at the postdoctoral stage.
Stevens' area of research is home-schooling. He is currently writing a book on the topic, Kingdom of Children: Pedagogy and Politics in the Home Education Movement, to be published by Princeton University Press in early 2001.
Stevens joined the Hamilton faculty in 1996 as a visiting assistant professor of sociology. He became a permanent assistant professor in 1998. He earned a bachelor's degree in sociology, magna cum laude, from Macalaster College and a master's in sociology in 1989, and Ph.D. in 1996 from Northwestern University.
He has published articles for the Annual Review of Sociology, Work and Occupations and New Art Examiner. Stevens has written reviews for Contemporary Sociology, the American Journal of Sociology, In These Times, and Art in America. He presented a paper at the 93rd Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, "Culture Shock: Black Students Account for their Distinctiveness at an Elite College."
In 1999 Stevens received Hamilton's Class of 1963 Excellence in Teaching Award. The award was established in 1988 to recognize one Hamilton faculty member each year who demonstrates extraordinary commitment to teaching.
