Nathan Braccio

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.