Principal fields for graduate supervision: History of First Nations of North America, Colonial Encounters, North American Multiculturalism, Atlantic World
American Exceptionalisms: From Winthrop to Winfrey
Making an Atlantic World: Circles, Paths, and Stories from the Colonial South
Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal
Publications
âLanguage Tells Another Story: When Tobacco Is cistemaw and the Cree Are nĂŞhiyaw,â British Journal of Canadian Studies 36 (1, 2024): 51-72,
âRe-Thinking the Bachelor of Arts for the 21st-Century Precariat,â Studies in Higher Education 47 (7, 2022):1447-1487, )
âInventing a Past: Molly Brantâs Life in Leadership,â History Now 59 (Spring 2021)
âDecolonisation and Reconciliation in the Australian Anthropocene,â Journal of Australian Studies 45 (2021): 4-17,
âMapping Native North America,â Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), )
âAlgae and Oxygen, Humans and Carbon: A Precambrian Analogue for the Anthropocene,â
Anthropocene Review 6 (2019), 1-5,
âBlueprints of Distress?: Why Quality Assurance Frameworks and Disciplinary Learning Cannot Sustain a 21st-Century Education,â Teaching in Higher Education 24 (2019):1014-1023.
âThe Limits of the Colonial Mind: Seeking Reconciliation in the Australian Anthropocene,â Griffith Review 60 (2018),
âCherokee Ghostings and the Haunted South,â Legacies: Essays on the Indigenous South, eds. Tim Alan Garrison and Greg OâBrien (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2017), 238-264.
âWho Was First?: The Diasporic Implications of Indigeneity,â Between Dispersion and Belonging: Recent Advances in Diaspora Studies, eds. Amitava Chowdhury and Donald H. Akenson (MontrĂŠal: McGill-Queenâs University Press, 2016), 111-124.
âBrĂŠbeuf Was Never Martyred: Reimagining the Death of Canadaâs First Saint,â Canadian Historical Review 97 (June 2016), 222-243.
âTelling about the South: An Autobiography of Antiquity,â Study the South (January 2016), 23 pp.;
âNative Americans and the Atlantic World,â Oxford Bibliographies Online (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, revised 2014).
With Karim M. Tiro, âAnimals in Atlantic North America,â The Atlantic World, eds. DâMaris Coffman, Adrian Leonard, and William OâReilly (London: Routledge, 2014), 13-33.
âMastering Language: Liberty, Slavery, and Native Resistance in the Nineteenth Century South,â Native Diasporas: Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas, eds. Gregory Smithers and Brooke Newman (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014), 209-234.
âHistories of the âTuscarora War,ââ Creating and Contesting Carolina: Proprietary Era Histories, eds. Bradford Wood and Michelle J. LeMaster (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2013), 186-210.
âChoctaw and Chickasaw Women, 1690-1834,â Mississippi Women, vol. 2, eds. Elizabeth Anne Payne, Martha H. Swain, and Marjorie Julia Spruill (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2010), 7-22.
ââThe Obituary of Nationsâ: Ethnic Cleansing, Memory, and the Origins of the Old South,â Southern Cultures 14 (2008): 6-31.
âWhen is an Ocean not an Ocean?: Geographies of the Atlantic World,â Southern Quarterly 43 (2006): 16-45; repr. in The Past Is Not Dead: Essays from the Southern Quarterly, eds. Douglas Chambers and Kenneth Watson (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2012).
âAmerican Historians and Indians,â The Historical Journal 49 (2006): 1-13.
"Sacred Circles and Dangerous People: Native American Cosmology and the French Settlement of Louisiana," French Colonial Louisiana and the Atlantic World, ed. Bradley Bond (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005), 65-82.
âTeaching Amerindian Autohistory,â American Indian Quarterly 27 (2003): 155-159.
âGreenwood LeFlore: Southern Creole and Choctaw Chief,â Journal of Mississippi History 65 (2003): 255-73; repr. in Exploring New Paths: Essays in Pre-Removal Choctaw History, ed. Greg OâBrien (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008), 221-236.
"'Dollars Never Fail to Melt Their Hearts': Native Women and the Market Revolution," Neither Lady, Nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South, eds. Michele Gillespie and Susanna Delfino (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002), 15-33.
"From Mohawk Woman to Loyalist Chief: The Life of Molly Brant," Sifters: Native American Women's Lives, ed. Theda Perdue (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 48-59.
"Ethnogeography and the Native American Past," Ethnohistory 49 (Fall 2002): 765-784
"âConquest or Progress!â: Old Questions and New Problems in the Ethnohistory of the Native Southeast," Ethnohistory 47 (2000): 821-834.
"Native Americans, the Market Revolution, and Culture Change: The Choctaw Cattle Economy, 1690-1830," Agricultural History 71 (Winter 1997): 1-18; repr. in Cultural Change and the Market Revolution in America, 1789-1860, ed. Scott Martin (Boston: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005), 71-88; repr. in Pre-Removal Choctaw History: Exploring New Paths, ed. Greg OâBrien (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008), pp.183-199.
"From Corn Mothers to Cotton Spinners: Continuity in Choctaw Women's Economic Life, 950 A.D. to 1830 A.D.," Women of the American South: A Multicultural Reader, eds. Christie Anne Farnham (New York: New York University Press, 1997), 8-25.
"Horses and the Economy and Culture of the Choctaw Indians, 1690-1840," Ethnohistory 42 (1995): 495-513; repr. in Environmental History in the American South: An Anthology, eds. Paul S. Sutter and Christopher J. Manganiello (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009), 61-79.
"State Rights and Indian Removal in Mississippi, 1817-1835," Journal of Mississippi History, 57 (1995): 25-42.
