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Linford D. Fisher is an Associate Professor of History and the Interim Faculty Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship at Brown University. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 2008 and joined the Department of History at Brown in the summer of 2009. His research and teaching primarily focus on cultural and religious history in colonial America, the Atlantic world, and the experiences of Native Americans, particularly regarding religion, material culture, and the histories of Indian and African slavery and servitude. Fisher is the author of "The Indian Great Awakening: Religion Shaping Native Cultures in Early America" and has co-authored works such as "Decoding Roger Williams: The Lost Essay of Rhode Island's Founding Father" and "Reading Roger Williams: Rogue Puritans, Indigenous Nations, and Founding America—A Documentary History." His recent book, "Stealing America: The Hidden History of Indigenous Slavery in U.S. History," will be published by W.W. Norton/Liveright in April 2026. In addition, Fisher has authored numerous articles and book chapters and is the founder and principal investigator of the project "Stolen Relations: Recovering Stories of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas," which aims to create a public, centralized database of Native slavery in the Americas.
Brown University • Providence, RI
Linford D. Fisher teaches courses focusing on early American history and the Atlantic world, particularly religious history in the colonial period and material culture.
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