Helen Hornbeck Tanner Collegiate Professor
dowdg@umich.edu
Office Information:
3672 Haven Hall
Fields of study:
Native American and Early American history
phone: 734.936.6872
Education/Degree:
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1986
About
Greg Dowd is a past chair of the Department of American Culture (AC) and a past director of the AC Native American Studies program. He has published several books and many articles on essays onthe history of Eastern North America from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. His scholarlyinterests include the study of rumor, religion, law, and those other places where ideas and popularaction meet. He has taught history at the University of Notre Dame, the University of Connecticut,and the University of the Witwatersrand (in Johannesburg, South Africa). He has held fellowships atthe University of Michigan’s Institute for the Humanities, the Newberry Library (Chicago), and theSmithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. He wrote an expert witness report and gaveprofessional testimony in deposition for tribes in a treaty-rights case in Michigan. He received hisPh.D. in History at Princeton University (1986) and his B.A. in History at the University of Connecticut (1978).
Research Area(s)
- - Early American History
- Native American Studies
- - British Settler Colonies and Indigenous Peoples, 1750-1825
Affiliation(s)
- Faculty: Department of American Culture (AC), Native American Studies (NAS)
- Faculty: Department of History
