By: Prof. Tom Wickman

I am thrilled to join Trinity’s history department and American Studies program. I bring to the study of early American history a central interest in the relationship between environment and power. My current research project, “Snowshoe Country,” is a political and environmental history of a contest over the ways that Native Americans wintered in northeastern North America in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. In 2012-13, I will offer courses on “North American Environmental History, 1491-2012,” “Food and Power in the Americas, 1492 to 1900,” “Native America, East of the Mississippi, 1497-1839,” and the introductory survey, “U.S. Colonial Period through the Civil War.” It will be a privilege to work with great students and colleagues on such a beautiful campus! As a former resident of the Hartford area, I look forward to returning and making Connecticut home again.