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David J. Silverman
Associate Professor of History
| 801 22nd St. NW #321 |
Phone: (202) 994-8094 |
| Washington, D.C. 20052 |
Email: djsilver@gwu.edu |
David J. Silverman teaches courses on American Indian, Colonial American, and Revolutionary American history. The recipient of several scholarly fellowships and awards, he was selected by the History News Network as one of the profession's "Top Young Historians" in 2007. He has recently completed a book entitled Brothertown: American Indians and the Problem of Race, which will be published by Cornell University Press. (Complete C.V.).
Selected Publications
Faith and Boundaries: Colonists, Christianity, and Community among the Wampanoag Indians of Martha's Vineyard, 1600-1871. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
"Indians, Missionaries, and Religious Translation: Creating Wampanoag Christianity in Seventeenth-Century Martha's Vineyard." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 62 (2005): 141-75.
- Winner, 2008 biennial Douglass Adair Memorial Award for the best article in the William and Mary Quarterly over the past six years.
- Winner, Lester J. Cappon Award for the best article in 2005 of the William and Mary Quarterly.
"'Natural Inhabitants, Time out of Mind': Sachem Rights and the Struggle for Wampanoag Land in Colonial New England." Northeast Anthropology 70 (2005): 4-10.
"'We chuse to be bounded': Indian Animal Husbandry in Colonial New England." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 60 (2003): 511-48.
"The Impact of Indentured Servitude on Southern New England Indian Society and Culture, 1680-1810." New England Quarterly 74 (2001): 622-66.
"Deposing the Sachem to Defend the Sachemship: Indian Land Sales and Political Structure on Martha's Vineyard, 1680-1740." Explorations in Early American Culture 5 (2001): 9-44.
Courses Taught
Hist 168: Colonial North America
Hist 101: Indians and the Problem of Race in Early America
Hist 101: Native American History to 1830
Hist 169: Revolutionary America
Education
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2000.
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