Spencer Dean Stewart
Assistant Professor
Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education LibraryFaculty Rank: Assistant Professor
ILS 201 Intro to Digital Humanities
ILS 630 Digital Humanities Foundations
Digital Humanities; Cultural Analytics; Digital History; Text Analysis; Modern China; Agricultural and Environmental History
PhD (History), University of Chicago
D. Kim Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, University of Chicago
Lecturer, Department of History, University of Utah
Published Articles
Stewart, Spencer Dean. “A Reluctant Expert: John B. Griffing, Agricultural Missionaries, and the Transformation of Agricultural Development, 1920s–1950s.” Agricultural History 99, no. 2 (2025): 243-274. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-11625402
Stewart, Spencer and Eliza McKinney. “Who Tells Your Story? Analyzing a Century of Utah History.” Utah Historical Quarterly 91, no. 1 (2023). https://doi.org/10.5406/26428652.91.1.04
Stewart, Spencer. “A Community Crop: Cotton, Science, and Extension in Interwar Shandong, 1918-1937.” Twentieth-Century China 46, no. 2 (2021): 199-219. https://doi.org/10.1353/tcc.2021.0015
Stewart, Spencer. “向中国学习: 施永高, 中美农业交流及历史价值” [Learning from China: Walter T. Swingle, U.S.-China Agricultural Exchange, and the Value of History]. 中国农史 [Agricultural History of China], no. 6 (2019): 29-39. http://zgns.paperonce.org/oa/DArticle.aspx?type=view&id=20190603
Conference Proceedings
Fang, Zhao, Liang-Chun Wu, Xuening Kong, and Spencer Stewart. “Natural Language Processing for Historical Chinese Documents.” NLP4DH 2025 (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2503.19844.
Stewart, Spencer. “A Methodology for Studying Linguistic and Cultural Change in China, 1900-1950.” CHR 2024: Computational Humanities Research Conference (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2502.04286.
Datasets
Duan, Yan, Adam K. Frost, and Spencer Stewart. Cotton Production in Republican China: A Longitudinal Dataset (1919–1937). July 2025. https://doi.org/10.4231/S460-H323.
Book Reviews
“Review of Jo Guldi, The Dangerous Art of Text Mining: A Methodology for Digital History.” H-History-and-Theory, H-Net Reviews (March 2024).
“Review of Jia-Chen Fu, The Other Milk: Reinventing Soy in Republican China.” H-Environment, H-Net Reviews (March 2021).
“Review of Sigrid Schmalzer, Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China.” PRC History Review Book Review Series, no. 1 (June 2018).
PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION
Faculty Rank: Assistant Professor
ILS 201 Intro to Digital Humanities
ILS 630 Digital Humanities Foundations
Digital Humanities; Cultural Analytics; Digital History; Text Analysis; Modern China; Agricultural and Environmental History
PhD (History), University of Chicago
D. Kim Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, University of Chicago
Lecturer, Department of History, University of Utah
PUBLICATIONS
Published Articles
Stewart, Spencer Dean. “A Reluctant Expert: John B. Griffing, Agricultural Missionaries, and the Transformation of Agricultural Development, 1920s–1950s.” Agricultural History 99, no. 2 (2025): 243-274. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-11625402
Stewart, Spencer and Eliza McKinney. “Who Tells Your Story? Analyzing a Century of Utah History.” Utah Historical Quarterly 91, no. 1 (2023). https://doi.org/10.5406/26428652.91.1.04
Stewart, Spencer. “A Community Crop: Cotton, Science, and Extension in Interwar Shandong, 1918-1937.” Twentieth-Century China 46, no. 2 (2021): 199-219. https://doi.org/10.1353/tcc.2021.0015
Stewart, Spencer. “向中国学习: 施永高, 中美农业交流及历史价值” [Learning from China: Walter T. Swingle, U.S.-China Agricultural Exchange, and the Value of History]. 中国农史 [Agricultural History of China], no. 6 (2019): 29-39. http://zgns.paperonce.org/oa/DArticle.aspx?type=view&id=20190603
Conference Proceedings
Fang, Zhao, Liang-Chun Wu, Xuening Kong, and Spencer Stewart. “Natural Language Processing for Historical Chinese Documents.” NLP4DH 2025 (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2503.19844.
Stewart, Spencer. “A Methodology for Studying Linguistic and Cultural Change in China, 1900-1950.” CHR 2024: Computational Humanities Research Conference (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2502.04286.
Datasets
Duan, Yan, Adam K. Frost, and Spencer Stewart. Cotton Production in Republican China: A Longitudinal Dataset (1919–1937). July 2025. https://doi.org/10.4231/S460-H323.
Book Reviews
“Review of Jo Guldi, The Dangerous Art of Text Mining: A Methodology for Digital History.” H-History-and-Theory, H-Net Reviews (March 2024).
“Review of Jia-Chen Fu, The Other Milk: Reinventing Soy in Republican China.” H-Environment, H-Net Reviews (March 2021).
“Review of Sigrid Schmalzer, Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China.” PRC History Review Book Review Series, no. 1 (June 2018).