Professor LeMaster’s research focuses on European and Native relations in the colonial North American Southeast in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and emphasizes ethnohistorical and Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) methodologies. Her current work explores the effect that differing cultural attitudes toward the use of violence had on intercultural conflict, focusing specifically on the so-called Tuscarora War in North Carolina between 1711 and 1715. The Tuscarora War represented the high-point of the Indian slave trade in the region, and demonstrates the influence that slave raiding/captive taking, global trade, and land encroachment had on regional cultures of violence.