Tom Arne Midtrød
Director of Graduate Studies, History Department
Associate Professor
Biography
Drop-in Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays, 1:30 - 2:30 p.m., Fridays, 12 - 1 p.m., or by appointment.
Tom Arne Midtrød earned a PhD from Northern Illinois University in 2008 and joined 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's first book, The Memory of All Ancient Customs, explores diplomacy and other forms of interaction among Native peoples and societies in the Hudson River Valley in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Teaching
Tom Arne teaches the following courses:
- HIST:1261 American History, 1492-1877
- HIST:4271 American Revolutionary Period
- HIST:4270 Colonial America
- HIST:4273 War and Violence in Early America
- HIST:4289 The Atlantic World, c. 1450-1850
Awards and service
- The Annual Archives Award for Excellence in Research using the Holdings of the State Archives, New York State Archives 2012
- Alumnus of the Year Award (2012), Northern Illinois University, Department of History
- Member of Steering Committee, American Indian and Native Studies Program, University of Iowa
- 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
Publications
Books
Articles
- "“A People before Useless”: Ethnic Cleansing in the Wartime Hudson Valley, 1754–1763." Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 21.3 (2023): 428-459.
- "'Calling for More Than Human Vengeance': Desecrating Native Graves in Early America" Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 17.3 (2019): 281-314.
- "Native American Landholding in the Colonial Hudson Valley" American Indian Culture and Research Journal , 37.1 (2013)
- "Strange and Disturbing News: Rumor and Diplomacy in the Colonial Hudson Valley" Ethnohistory 58 (2011): 91-112.
- "The Flemish Bastard and the Former Indians: Métis and Identity in Seventeenth-Century New York" The American Indian Quarterly 34.1 (2010): 83-108.
Research areas
- Native American
- United States
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