PAUL KELTON

Professor and Gardiner Chair in American History

PhD, University of Oklahoma, 1998

Office: Social & Behavioral Sciences - Level 3, Room S-329

Email: paul.kelton@stonybrook.edu

Interests: Indigenous peoples of North America; environment and medicine; early American history

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Bio:

I have examined the biological processes involved in the European takeover of the Americas in two books: Epidemics and Enslavement and Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs. By placing local struggles with epidemics within the large-scale context of colonialism's social disruption, structural violence, and political upheaval, my historical research has contemporary relevance to debates over global health disparities and emerging infectious diseases. I am continuing my research on Indigenous experiences with European-introduced diseases with multiple ongoing projects detailing the contours of Native death and survival during the Seven Years War in North America, the American Revolution, and Indian Removal.

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Recent Courses:

Undergraduate

• HIS 103 American History to 1877
• HIS 104 American History Since 1877
• HIS 286 Global History of Human Health
• HIS 301 Reading and Writing History: Conflict and Consensus in US History
• HIS 314 Indigenous-Settler Relations in the United States
• HIS 396 Topics in US History: Indigenous People of Long Island and New England

Graduate

• HIS 517 Theme Seminar - Indigenous People
• HIS 524 Core Seminar
• HIS 601 Research Seminar