Seth Archer
History, Cultures, and Ideas
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Contact Information
Office Location: Logan (MAIN 321K)Phone: +1 435 797 4228
Email: seth.archer@usu.edu
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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. 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 and was a finalist for the William H. Welch Medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine. His current book project is a cultural history of Native American captivity in the Intermountain West ca. 1250 CE to 1873.