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Professor of History and American Studies, Amherst College
Office: 103 Morgan Hall
Telephone: (413) 542-2371
E-mail: kmsweeney@amherst.edu
Degree: Ph.D., Yale University (1986)
Field(s) of interest: Colonial America, Material Culture
Graduate Courses Offered:
Material Culture (Not Online)
Research Interests and Professional Activities:
I came to Amherst College in 1989 after working for almost a decade in history museums. Trained as a colonial historian at Yale (Ph.D. in 1986), I teach courses on colonial North American history, the era of the American Revolution, early American material culture and architecture, and Native American histories as well as American Studies departmental courses. I have written numerous articles on the architecture and material culture of colonial New England and with Evan Haefeli wrote Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield (2003). Currently, I am researching the possession and use of firearms in early America.
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