As long as you’re on campus this Thursday for Seth’s workshop (see previous post), be sure to check out the talk sponsored by the Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture:
Evan Haefeli, Assistant Professor of American History, Columbia University
Toleration and Context: The Flushing Remonstrance of 1657
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Classics 110
4:30pm
A reception to celebrate the beginning of the year will follow the lecture.
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Evan Haefeli specializes in colonial American and Native American history. His interests include religion, politics, cross-cultural relations, comparative colonialism, frontier studies, witchcraft, warfare, the slave trade, and the history of the book in the early modern Atlantic World.
His essays on early Dutch, English, French, and Swedish colonialism and on native accounts of first contact have appeared in Ethnohistory, The William and Mary Quarterly, the American Historical Review, and elsewhere and have received awards from the Society for Colonial Wars and the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture.
He is the co-author of “Captives and Captors: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield,” which received books prizes from the New England Historical Association and the Association for State and Local History, and he has also co-edited a companion volume entitled, “Captive Histories: English, French, and Native Narratives of the 1704 Deerfield Raid.” His current work is on the origins of religious toleration in colonial America.