Joseph M. Hall, Jr.

Joseph M. Hall, Jr. is an historian, writer, and American history professor at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine where he specializes in the history of Native American and European interactions from the American colonial period to the present. He is a nationally recognized historian for his research on Native American history and often writes articles that contribute to newspapers in addition to his work in academia.[1] At Bates, he is currently the chair of the History department and is also a faculty member in the Environmental Studies program.[2]

Hall is from Newport, Rhode Island and received his B.A. at Amherst College (1991) and his M.A. (1995) and Ph.D. (2001) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[3] He is the author of many articles, essays, and popular books including Zamumo’s Gifts: Indian-European Exchange in the Colonial Southeast (2012)[4] and Making an Indian People: Creek Formation in the Colonial Southeast, 1590-1735 (2001).[5]

Hall teaches a diversity of history courses.[6] They include:

  • HIST 140 ~ Origins of the New Nation, 1500-1820
  • INDS 211 ~ United States Environmental History
  • HIST 241 ~ The Age of the American Revolution, 1763-1789
  • AM/HI 244 ~ Native American History
  • HIST 249 ~ Colonial North America
  • HIST 294 ~ The Revolutionary Black Atlantic, 1770-1840
  • AF/HI 301E ~ African Slavery in the Americas
  • ES/HI 301M ~ Maine: Environment and History
  • HIST s28 ~ Wabanaki History in Maine

References
  1. https://www.sunjournal.com/2019/02/24/joseph-hall-auburns-indigenous-history/
  2. https://www.bates.edu/environment/faculty/
  3. https://www.bates.edu/history/faculty/joseph-hall/
  4. Joseph M. Hall, Jr., Zamumo’s Gifts: Indian-European Exchange in the Colonial Southeast (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012), http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14664.html
  5. Joseph M. Hall, Jr., Making an Indian People: Creek Formation in the Colonial Southeast, 1590-1735 (University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2001) https://books.google.com/books?id=-KGGAAAAMAAJ
  6. https://www.bates.edu/history/academics/courses/
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