Moyra Williams Eaton

Moyra Williams Eaton joined the Jack Miller Center in November 2025. As Graduate Consortium Manager, she works with the Founding Civics Initiative to manage and grow the Civics Foundations Graduate Consortium, dedicated to providing high-impact, content-based graduate education for K-12 civics and history teachers across the country.

Moyra earned her B.A. in International Studies from Dickinson College, her M.A. in History from Villanova University, and will earn her Ph.D. in History from The Pennsylvania State University in December 2025. She brings both scholarly expertise and secondary classroom experience to her role at JMC. She previously taught middle school language arts, writing, and current events, and has worked as a curriculum developer and history content expert for school districts and academic programs.

Moyra is a historian of politics, veterans, and material culture in the nineteenth-century United States. Her academic and public writing has appeared in the Journal of the Civil War Era, Time, and the Washington Post. She is at work on her first book project, tentatively titled The State in Stone: The U.S. Naval Asylum, Governance, and Nation Building in the Early Republic.