Seth Archer
History
Associate Professor
Contact Information
Office Location: Logan (MAIN 321K)Phone: +1 435 797 4228
Email: seth.archer@usu.edu
Additional Information:
Educational Background
PhD, University of California, Riverside, 2015
MA, College of William and Mary, 2009
MFA, University of Arizona, 1999
BA, College of William and Mary, 1996
Biography
Seth Archer is a cultural and environmental historian of North America specializing in Indigenous history and the history of health, disease, and medicine. His first book is Sharks upon the Land: Colonialism, Indigenous Health, and Culture in Hawaiʻi, 1778-1855 (Cambridge University Press, 2018), which won the President's Book Award from the Social Science History Association. From 2015 to 2017 he was the Mellon Research Fellow in American History at the University of Cambridge.