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Professor David J. Sliverman bio
David J. Silverman has taught Native American, Colonial American, and American racial history at GW since 2003. He is the author of six books: The Chosen and the Damned: Native Americans and the Making of Race in the United States (New York: Bloomsbury, 2026); This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving (New York: Bloomsbury, 2019); Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016); co-author with Julie A. Fisher, Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics and Narragansetts: Diplomacy, War, and the Balance of Power in Seventeenth-Century New England and Indian Country(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2014); Red Brethren: The Brothertown and Stockbridge Indians and the Problem of Race in Early America (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010); and Faith and Boundaries: Colonists, Christianity, and Community among the Wampanoag Indians of Martha’s Vineyard, 1600-1871 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005). He is also the co-editor of two volumes with GW’s Denver Brunsman: Colonial America: Essays on Politics and Social Development (New York: Routledge, 2010), and The American Revolution Reader (New York: Routledge, 2014); and co-editor, with Ignacio Gallup-Diaz and Andrew Shankman, of Anglicizing America: Empire, Revolution, Republic (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. His scholarship, and his undergraduate and graduate advisees, have received multiple honors. He is active as a public historian in giving lectures, authoring opinion pieces, consulting on museum exhibits and legal briefs, and appearing in media. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2000.