Earlier Forums
2020-2021
July 27, 2020
Dr. Jeffrey Washburn
University of Texas Permian Basin
“‘When at a Distance, Friendship Always Remains Firm and Secure’: Chickasaws and the Creation of a Pragmatic Peace, 1790-1816.”
Comments by Kristalyn Shefveland and Natalie Inman
September 8, 2020
Dr. Christine Rizzi
Broward College
“Secession as Settler Violence: Seminole Resistance in Florida and the Sectional Crisis of the 1850s”
Comments by James Michael Denham and Gregory Smithers
October 14, 2020
Dr. Jennifer McCutchen
University of Southern Maine
“Gendered Commodities & Projections of Masculinity in Creek-British Diplomacy, 1763-1776”
Comments by Michelle LeMaster and Greg O’Brien
November 18, 2020
Dr. Peter J. Ferdinando
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
“Native Floridian Ambergris Trade and Atlantic Agency, 1595-1693”
Comments by Denies I. Bossy and Maureen Meyer
February 25, 2021
Dr. Jaime Mize
University of North Carolina at Pembroke
“Chickamauga Women: A Study of Cherokee Gender, Relocation, and Resistance”
Comments by Liza Black and Kristopher Ray
March 30, 2021
Dr. Evan Nooe
University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Central Piedmont Community College
“Memories to Monument: Native Violence and the Coalescence of White South Carolina”
Comments by Christina Snyder and Boyd Cothran
April 27, 2021
Dr. Aubrey Lauersdorf
““They had their women & children concealed”: Indigenous Women & Warfare in the Sixteenth-Century Gulf South”
Comments by Robbie Ethridge and Alejandra Dubcovsky
May 25, 2021
Dr. Matthew Sparacio
Southeastern Oklahoma State University
“Choctaw Health and Community Responses to Disease in the Eighteenth Century”
Comments by Elizabeth Ellis and Paul Kelton
2021-2022
November 16, 2021
Dr. Justin Rogers
University of Mississippi
“Finding Bombazelle: Self-Liberation and Black-Native Identity in the Nineteenth-Century South”
Comments by Angela Pulley Hudson and Kevin Kokomoor
December 14, 2021
Dr. Julia Lewandoski
California State University, San Marcos
“Property, Migration, and Survival: Petites Nations and Land in Late Spanish and early U.S. Louisiana”
Comments by Robbie Ethridge and Kristofer Ray
March 22, 2022
Dr. Lucas P. Kelly
Valparaiso University
““Mark Our Boundaries on the Map”: Native Control over National Borders in the Tennessee and Cumberland Valleys”
Comments by Samantha Seeley and David Nichols
April 20, 2022
Dr. Haley Negrin
University of Illinois, Chicago
“Return to the Yeokanta/River: Powhatan Women and Environmental Treaty Making in Early America”
Comments by James Rice and Matthew Kruer
2022-2023
October 11, 2022
Dr. Bradley Joseph Dixon
University of Memphis
““Miserable Vassals” and “True Subjects”: Forging Hybrid Polities in the Early American South”
Comments by Kristalyn Marie Shefveland
December 8, 2022
Dr. Dixie Ray Haggard
Valdosta State University
“The Illogic of Jim Crow and the Pascagoula River Tribe in Southeast, Mississippi”
Comments by Denise Bates
February 22, 2023
Dr. Jason Herbert
“Bovine Borderlands: Creatin New Indigenous Spaces in 18th Century Florida”
Comments by Christina Snyder
May 17, 2023
Dr. Miller Wright
“Slaving, Rumors, and Archival Debris: The Westo in the Seventeenth Century.”
Comments by Michael Witgen