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Elspeth Martini teaches on early and nineteenth-century North America, Native North America, and North American borderlands. Her forthcoming book, Paternalist Reckonings: The Humanitarian Roots of Indigenous Dispossession in the U.S. and British Empires, 1814-1848 explores the U.S. and British settler-colonization of Indigenous territories in North America, Australia, and southern Africa.

PUBLICATIONS

“Dangerous Proximities: Anglo-American Humanitarian Paternalists in the Era of Indigenous Removal,” Western Historical Quarterly 53, no. 4 (2022): 379-404.

“Visiting Indians, Nursing Fathers, and Anglo-American Empire in the post-War of 1812 Western Great Lakes,” William and Mary Quarterly 73, no. 3 (2021): 459-490.

“Towards a ‘New Indian History’ of Foreign Relations: U.S.-American Indian Diplomacy from Greenville to Wounded Knee.” In A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations, Colonial Era to the Present, ed., Christopher R. W. Dietrich (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020): 113-141.

“Shahwundais and the Methodist Mission to Native North America.” In Facing Empire: Indigenous Experiences of Empire in a Revolutionary Age, eds., Kate Fullager and Michael A. McDonnell (John Hopkins University Press, 2018): 303-330.

“Borderlands, Indigenous Homelands, and North American Settler Colonialism,” Reviews in America History 45, no. 3 (2017): 416-422.

Specialization

Early and Nineteenth-Century North America
Native North America
British Empire
Settler Colonialism

Office Hours

Fall

Tuesday

9:00 am - 11:00 am

Friday

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Or by appointment on Zoom

Spring

Tuesday

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Friday

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Or by appointment on Zoom