Department of History - University of Michigan

Gregory Dowd

Professor
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1986

Other U of M Affiliation:
Director,Program in American Culture; Native American Studies

Contact Information:
University of Michigan
3672 Haven Hall
Phone: 734-763-1460
E-mail: dowdg@umich.edu

Field(s) of Study:
Native American history, early American history

Biography:
Greg Dowd directs the Program in American Culture. His scholarly interests include the study of rumor and the history of the North American Indian East during the colonial, revolutionary, and early national periods. He has served previously as Director of Native American Studies. He has taught history at the University of Notre Dame, the University of Connecticut, and the University of the Witwatersrand (in Johannesburg, South Africa). He has held fellowships at the University of Michigan’s Institute for the Humanities, the Newberry Library (Chicago), and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. He wrote an expert witness report and gave professional testimony in deposition for tribes in a treaty-rights case in Michigan. He received his Ph.D. in History at Princeton University (1986) and his B.A. in History at the University of Connecticut (1978).

Selected Publications:
BOOKS

A Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992)

War under Heaven: Pontiac, The Indian Nations, and the British Empire (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002)

ESSAYS AND ARTICLES

“Michigan Murder Mysteries: Death and Rumor in the Age of Indian Removal,” in R. David Edmunds, ed., Enduring Nations: Native Americans in the Midwest (Champaign-Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008)

“Domestic Dependent Nations: The Colonial Origins of a Paradox,” in Jean R. Soderlund and Catherine S. Parzynski, eds., Backcountry Crucibles: The Lehigh Valley from Settlement to Steel (Lehigh: Lehigh University Press, 2008)

“The American Revolution to the Mid-Nineteenth Century,” in Raymond Fogelson, ed. Handbook of the North American Indians: Southeast, gen. ed. William Sturtevant (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 2004)

“Spinning Wheel Revolution,” in James Horn, Peter S. Onuf, and Jan Ellen Lewis, eds., The Revolution of 1800: Democracy, Race and the New Republic (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2002)

“Wag the Imperial Dog: Indians and Empires, 1600-1776,” in Neal Salisbury and Philip J. Deloria, eds., A Companion to American Indian History (Malden, Mass. and Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell Publishers, 2002)

“‘Insidious Friends’: Gift Giving and the Cherokee-British Alliance in the Seven Years' War," in Fredrika Teute and Andrew R. L. Cayton, eds., Contact Points: American Frontiers From the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750-1830 (Chapel Hill: Institute of Early American History and Culture and University of North Carolina Press, 1998)

"The Panic of 1751: Rumors on the Cherokee-South Carolina Frontier," William and Mary Quarterly 3rd Series, 53 (1996)

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