Dr. Gregory Dowd

Biography

Gregory E. Dowd is the Helen Hornbeck Tanner Collegiate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. in History from Princeton University in 1986 and holds a B.A. in History from the University of Connecticut (1978). His teaching and research interests focus on Early American History, Native American Studies, and the history of British Settler Colonies and Indigenous Peoples from 1750 to 1825. Dowd has taught at various prestigious institutions including the University of Notre Dame, the University of Connecticut, and the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has served as Associate Dean in the Humanities and chair of the Department of American Culture at the University of Michigan. His research includes significant contributions to the history of Eastern North America during the sixteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries and includes studies on rumor, religion, law, and the interaction of various societal forces. Dowd has published numerous books, articles, and essays and has held fellowships at recognized institutions such as the Newberry Library in Chicago and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Additionally, he provided expert witness reports and testimony in a treaty-rights case involving tribal rights in Michigan.

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