Looking for Early Americanists!

[M&M]

Hello! 

 

I'll be starting my Junior Year at a State U this coming Fall. I've begun to look ahead to grad school and their requirements. 

 

I'm interested in colonial America and more specifically, relations between colonists and Native Americans. I have a particular interest in the social-cultural impact of European settlements and the Native American way of life. I'm most interested in New England in the early 17th century and up until the Revolution.

 

I've been reading through these forums for weeks, so I know there are a few early Americanists. I'm curious if there are any with similar interests to mine. 

 

I'm still in the early stages of researching schools, but I've got my sights set on receiving my Master's first to beef up my research skills and such before applying to top-PhD programs. 

 

[Chiqui74]

I'm an Early Americanist, or at least I will be come Fall. My research interests are a bit more obscure, but roughly the same time period.

[catsandscarves]

Hello! we have similar research interests (though differing geographically and temporally). I study early American and Native American history (particularly mid-eighteenth and into the antebellum era but I am still narrowing this) in the Ohio River Valley. I am very interested in relations between Euro-Americans and Native peoples and in particular thinking about captivity, slavery, kinship, and race. More than willing to chat! 

[Bactrian]

Dan Richter at Penn.

[M&M]

Hello! we have similar research interests (though differing geographically and temporally). I study early American and Native American history (particularly mid-eighteenth and into the antebellum era but I am still narrowing this) in the Ohio River Valley. I am very interested in relations between Euro-Americans and Native peoples and in particular thinking about captivity, slavery, kinship, and race. More than willing to chat!

Hello catsandscarves!

Do you have any favorite journals or schoars who are working on this topic?

I've searched JSTOR numerous times and don't come up with much in the way of Euro-Native relations.

While my primary interests lie with the first settlers and their interactions with the Natives, I'm also interested in relationship development, and ultimately, how this effected both the Euro-Americans as they continued to settle and grow in number, and the Natives who were continually uprooted and dwindled in number.

[M&M]

I'm an Early Americanist, or at least I will be come Fall. My research interests are a bit more obscure, but roughly the same time period.

 

Chiqui,

I'd love to hear more about your interests if you'd like to share. The whole of this time period fascinates me.

Dan Richter at Penn.

I've recently been going through faculty lists and he has come up numerous times in my research. I'll be sure to look more into his reseach - thanks!

[catsandscarves]

Hello catsandscarves!

Do you have any favorite journals or schoars who are working on this topic?

I've searched JSTOR numerous times and don't come up with much in the way of Euro-Native relations.

While my primary interests lie with the first settlers and their interactions with the Natives, I'm also interested in relationship development, and ultimately, how this effected both the Euro-Americans as they continued to settle and grow in number, and the Natives who were continually uprooted and dwindled in number.

 

that must be what you are searching because it is definitely a large field. I can follow up with  more later but I'd scan Ethnohistory, William and Mary Quarterly, and state journals in your region of interest to start. These are all scholars working in later time periods but Dan Richter, Dan Silver, Nancy Shoemaker, Claudio Saunt, Juliana Barr, Christina Snyder, Susan Sleeper-Smith, Robbie Ethridge, David Nichols, James Brooks, Karl Jacoby, Kathleen DuVal are all scholars who explore these kinds of themes and there are many, many more. I have tried to vary this list regionally as well. 

[Chiqui74]

Basically, my interest in is food history.