Nathan Braccio’s teaching and research focus on Indigenous history, colonial American history, and environmental history, specifically the cultural negotiations among Northeastern Indigenous peoples and the New England colonists in the 1600s and early 1700s. Prior to coming to Clark, he taught at Lesley University and was a postdoctoral fellow at Utah State University. His current book project, “Creating New England, Defending the Northeast: Contested Algonquian and English Spatial Worlds, 1500–1700,” investigates the different ways Algonquian-speaking peoples and Puritan colonists marked, described, and mapped the landscape of present-day New England. He has published articles and digital projects on both Indigenous mapmaking practices and the absence of mapmakers amongst the Puritan colonists. Braccio’s next project explores the culture of agrarian violence in colonial America. He earned his doctorate from the University of Connecticut and his master’s and bachelor’s degrees from American University.
Nathan Braccio
Assistant Professor, History
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Degrees
- Ph.D. in History, University of Connecticut, 2020
- M.A. in History, American University, 2013
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Scholarly and creative works
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Creating New England, Defending the Northeast: Algonquian and English Contested Spatial Worlds, 1500-1700
Northeastern Indian Lives2025AmherstUSA -
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Chapter: War Without Death: Alternative Forms of Conquest and Violence in 17th-Century Northeast Algonquian CulturesPublished by Tenatively University of Nebraska Press2025 -
Review of Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500 by Alida Metcalf; Mapping Nature across the Americas edited by Kathleen Brosnan and James Akerman; Mapping America: The Incredible Story and Stunning Hand-Colored Maps and Engravings that Created the United States edited by Jean-Pierre Isbouts and Neal Asbury.
Early American Literature2023Vol. 58Issue #1 -
Map Scarcity in Colonial New England Before 1650
Published in Journal of early American studiesSummer2021Vol. 19Issue #3 -
Map Scarcity in Colonial New England Before 1650
Published in Journal of Early American StudiesSummer2021Vol. 19Issue #3 -
Thomas Graves, Philip Wells, and Colonial Mapping in Massachusetts
Published in Historical Journal of MassachusettsWinter2020 -
Review of Geographies of an Imperial Power: The British World, 1688-1815 by Jeremy Black
Journal of British Studies2018Vol. 57Issue #4