Jessica R.S. Spivey

Assistant Professor
Department of History

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Teaching interests: Early America, British Atlantic, Native American history and culture, ethnohistory, history and theory, Native Americans and museums

Research interests: Trade and gift-exchange between British settlers and southeastern Native American groups in colonial South Carolina and Georgia; intersections of Roger Williams' ethnographic and religious though

Brief biography: I earned my Ph.D. in June, 2007 from The Johns Hopkins University where I completed my dissertation,  "Red Rat and The Maker: British American and Native American Exchange in the Colonial Southeast," under the direction of Jack P. Greene.  I completed my undergraduate work at Reed College in 2001.