Speaker Profiles

John Wood Sweet

John Wood Sweet

University of North Carolina
http://history.unc.edu/faculty/sweet.html
Within the general field of Early American history, John Wood Sweet's research focuses on the dynamics of colonialism and on the interplay of religious cultures. In Bodies Politic he explores the encounters of Indians, Africans, and Europeans in New England and argues that the racial legacy of colonialism shaped the emergence of the American North as well as the South.   [more]