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Associate Professor
Director, Public Historical Studies
PhD (History), Brandeis University, 1995
MA (American Studies), Boston University, 1990
Field:
- American History
-- American Colonial History, Native American History, History of
Women and the Family, Law and Society, Colonialism, History and Anthropology,
Public History, Museum Studies, History of Memory.
Recent Publications:
- Colonial
Intimacies: Indian Marriage in Early New England (Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 2000)
- "Legitimacies,
Indian Identities, and the Law: The Politics of Sex and the Creation
of History in Colonial New England". Law and Social Inquiry:
Journal of the American Bar Foundation, Vol. 23, no. 1, Winter 1998.
pp. 55-77
- "The Massachusetts
Indian Enfranchisement Act: Ethnic Contest in History Context, 1849-1869"
co-authored with Gregory Button. Ethnohistory, Vol. 40, no. 4, 1993.
pp. 587-618. Reprinted in After King Philip's War: Presence and Persistence
in Indian New England, edited by Colin G. Calloway, University Press
of New England, 1997.
- "'The Examination
of Sarah Ahhaton': The Politics of 'Adultery' in an Indian Town of
Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts". Reprinted in Major Problems
in American Women's History edited by Mary Beth Norton and Ruth M.
Alexander. New York: D.C. Heath, 1995. 2nd edition. pp. 14-25.
Current Projects:
- "Enacting
the Origins of America: The Plimoth Plantations." co-authored
with Mary Hancock.
Courses:
- History 17A
-- The American People, Colonial through Jacksonian Era.
- History 179A
-- Native American History to 1838.
- History 179P
-- Proseminar in Native American History.
- History 191Q
-- Seminar in History, Memory, and Museums.
- History 201AM
-- Ethnography, Culture and Memory: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
on Colonial New England.
- History 201AM
-- North American Colonialism in Comparative Context.
- History 201AM
-- Readings in Native American History, 1492 to the Present.
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