Onondaga Village
NAA Smithsonian Institution

Instructor

Prof. Alice Nash
Associate Professor

Office Herter 638
anash@history.umass.edu

Office hours:
--Tu 4:00 to 5:00 p.m.
--W 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
--and by appointment

 

Degree: Ph.D., Columbia (1997)

Field(s) of interest: Native American history, Early American History

Research Interests and Professional Activities
Professor Nash held the Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the Université de Montréal (Canada) for 2003-04. Her research interests center on the impact of colonization on the indigenous peoples of northeastern North America with a particular interest in family and gender relations. Recent publications include "Antic Deportments and Indian Postures: Embodiment in Anglo-Indian New England," in Lindman and Tarter, eds., "A Centre of Wonders": The Body in Early America (Cornell UP 2001); “‘None of the women were abused’: Indigenous Contexts for the Treatment of Women Captives in the Northeast,” in Merril Smith, ed., Sex Without Consent: Rape and Sexual Coercion in America (NYU Press, 2001); an online review of the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, “Still Pequot After All These Years,” in Common-place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life 1:1 (September 2000); and three articles in French translation published in Recherches amérindiennes au Québec: “Odanak durant les années 1920 : un prisme reflétant l’histoire des abénaquis (Odanak in the 1920s: A Prism of Abenaki History),: trans. Claude Gélinas (32/2 :2002); “La linguistique liturgique du père Aubéry : Aperçu ethnohistorique (Father Aubery’s Liturgical Linguistics: An Ethnohistorical View),” co-authored with Nicholas N. Smith, trans. Nicole Beaudry (33/2: 2003); and “Théophile Panadis (1889-1966), un guide abénaquis (Théophile Panadis (1889-1966): An Abenaki Guide),” co-authored with Réjean Obomsawin, trans. Claude Gélinas (33/2: 2003). Her first book, Power and Protocol: Wabanaki Histories to 1800 , will be published by the University of Massachusetts Press.

 

Teaching Assistants

 

Teaching Assistants may be reached via email as follows:

Harry Franqui
D01    F 9:05AM - 9:55AM           Lederle Grad Res Tower rm 117
D02    F 10:10AM - 11:00AM       Totman 156
D05    F 11:15AM - 12:05PM       Totman 156

Christopher Parcels
D03    F 12:20PM - 1:10PM          Herter Hall room 204
D04    F 10:10AM - 11:00AM       Lederle Grad Res Tower rm 1322
D06    F 1:25PM - 2:15PM            School of Management rm 117