John C Winters

U.S. History: 18th and 19th century, Native American history, museum and public history, memory studies

John C. Winters is the DPAA Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. He writes on the histories of Indigenous people and institutions  in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that shaped aspects of colonial American culture and memory in their own image. John is the author of "The Amazing Iroquois" and the Invention of the Empire State (OUP 2023) and holds a grant with the National Park Service. He comes to GMU from Penn State, Southern Miss, and Westminster College.