Michelle LeMaster

First Name: 

Michelle

Last Name: 

LeMaster

Full Title: 

Associate Professor

Email: 

Education: 

PHD, Johns Hopkins, 2002

Interests: 

Colonial America, Atlantic World, Native America

Address: 

Maginnes 343

Phone: 

610-758-3358

Profile: 

Professor LeMaster is a historian of colonial British America, specializing in American Indian history, gender, and the Atlantic World.  Her book, Brothers Born of One Mother: British-Native American Relations in the Colonial Southeast, investigates the role that ideas about gender and family played in Anglo-Indian contact in the Carolinas and Georgia before the Revolution.  Her current project focuses on the problem of violence in the Tuscarora War.

Courses taught:

History 025: Pirates of the Caribbean and Other Rogues of the Atlantic World
History 041: U.S. to 1865
History 090: The Wild, Wild West
History 120: Revolutionary America
History/WGSS 124: Women in America
History 319: Colonial America to 1763
History 320: North American Indians
History 367: The Rise and Fall of the Old South
History 401: [Grad] Historical Research
History 440: [Grad] Readings in Colonial America: General
History 440: [Grad] Readings in Colonial America: Native Americans
History 440: [Grad] Readings in Colonial America: The Eighteenth Century
History 440: [Grad] Readings in Colonial America: The Seventeenth Century

Books:

Brothers Born of One Mother: British-Native American Relations in the Colonial Southeast. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012.

Creating and Contesting Carolina: Proprietary Era Histories. Co-edited with Bradford J. Wood. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2013.