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John Winters

Dr. John Winters

Assistant Professor

Bio

John C. Winters, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of History and the incoming director of the Public History Certificate program. He studies the intersections of the histories of Native America, museums, and historical memory. John is the recent author of "The Amazing Iroquois" and the Invention of the Empire State (Oxford University Press, 2023) and an article on the "Indian Colony" of NYC in the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (October 2022). As a public historian, he has worked in curatorial, research, and public programming capacities at The Roosevelt House Institute for Public Policy, George Washington’s Mount Vernon, the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, and is the ITPS Research Associate in New York History at the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies at Iona College in New Rochelle, NY, where he also hosted "Season Two: Indigenous Public History" on the ITPS Podcast, Public History in a Virtual Age. You can find more on his website, johncwinters.com

  • PHD - CUNY City College (2020)
  • PHM - CUNY City College (2016)

HIS 102 : World History Since 1500
HIS 202 : US History Since 1877
HIS 350: Public History in Theory and Method

  • "The Amazing Iroquois" and the Invention of the Empire State, 2023
  • “The Great White Mother”: Harriet Maxwell Converse, the Indian Colony of New York City, and the Media, 1885–1903, The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 2022
  • Indigenous Public History, Institute for Thomas Paine Studies Podcast -- Public History in a Virtual Age, 2022

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Contact Me

Liberal Arts Building (LAB) 316 map

Hattiesburg

Email
John.WintersFREEMississippi

Phone
x65351

Areas of Expertise

Public History, Native American History, American History, Memory Studies, Museum Studies, Long 19th Century