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Elana Krischer
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
Bio
Dr. Elana Krischer is a Visiting Assistant Professor of History. She holds a PhD in History from the University at Albany (SUNY). She is a scholar of nineteenth century Native American history, with a research specialization in Haudenosaunee history, settler colonialism, and U.S. empire. She especially enjoys teaching early American history, Native American history, and the history of western expansion. She is working on several projects, including a book manuscript that examines the construction of settler colonialism in New York State in the nineteenth century as well as a digital history project that uses GIS to map the slow and unsteady progression of expansion in western New York.
Education
PhD, History, University at Albany (SUNY)
BA, History, The College of Saint Rose
Research Interests / Areas of Focus
Native American history, New York State, settler colonialism, western expansion, US foreign relations
Selected Publications
“Seneca Conceptions of Land Use and Value: Debates Over Land Sovereignty, 1797-1848.” Journal of the Early Republic 41, no. 3 (Fall 2021).
“Expansion in the East: Seneca Sovereignty, Quaker Missionaries, and the Great Survey, 1797-1801.” in Inventing Destiny: Exploring the Cultures of US Expansion. Jimmy L. Bryan Jr., Editor, University Press of Kansas, 2019.
“‘We Have None to Part With’: Conflict Over Land in Western New York, 1794-1819.” Iroquoia: The Journal of the Conference on Iroquois Research 2, no. 1 (2016).
Selected Presentations
“The Limits of Settler Power: Federal, State, and Land Company Constructions of Law, Property, and Sovereignty in Debates Over Seneca Lands,” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. 2023
“New York’s ‘Indian Problem’: Ely Parker and the Whipple Report, 1850-1889,” New York State Library Public Webinar. 2021
“Seneca Conceptions of Land Use and Value: Factional Disagreements Over Land Sovereignty, 1797-1848,” American Historical Association, New York, NY. 2020
“Seneca Conceptions of Land Use and Value: Factional Disagreements Over Land Sovereignty, 1797-1848,” The American Society for Ethnohistory Conference, State College, PA. 2019
“Expansion in the East: State-Making in Western New York, 1797-1801,” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting, Cleveland, OH. 2018
Selected Awards and Honors
University at Albany Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2020
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar. Cornell University, 2019.
Larry J. Hackman Research Residency Award, New York State Archives, 2018
Gest Fellowship, Quaker and Special Collections, Haverford College, 2017
