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Tom Arne Midtrød

Early North America

Office: 161 SH

Office Hours:
M/W/F 12:30-1:30PM
and by appointment

Tel: (319) 335-2064

Email: tom-midtrod@uiowa.edu

Research

Teaching

Publications

Awards &
Service

Research

Tom Arne Midtrød joins the Department of History in the Fall 2009. His research focuses on North American Indians from first contact with Europeans through the era of the American Revolution. Tom Arne is currently working on his first book, which explores diplomacy and other forms of interaction among Native peoples and societies in the Hudson River Valley in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Tom Arne received his Ph.D. from Northern Illinois University in 2008.

Teaching

Tom Arne will teach courses in early American history. Course taught Fall 2009:

  • History 16A:162: American Revolutionary Period

Publications

  • "So Great a Correspondence": Native American Diplomacy in the Hudson Valley, 1609-1783, book in progress.
  • "The Flemish Bastard and the Former Indians: Métis and Identity in Seventeenth-Century New York," forthcoming article in The American Indian Quarterly.

Awards & Service

  • Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Northern Illinois University, 2009
  • Dissertation Completion Fellowship: Northern Illinois University, 2007-2008
  • Graduate Teaching Fellow: Northern Illinois University, 2003-2007
  • E. Lewis B. Curtis Award for Academic Excellence: University of South Alabama, 2003
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