Panel Chair: “Mapping History”

Christine DeLucia is a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at Yale. She studies collective memories of the seventeenth-century “Indian Wars” in the American Northeast, tracing ties between the region’s physical environment and understandings of a violent colonial past that dramatically transformed this space. Native communities’ oral traditions and practices of marking place–types of knowledge and mapping that have been overlooked by historians reliant on written archives–are a major focus of the project. Making these alternate Native geographies of disaster, remembering, and recovery visible and accessible to communities beyond the academy is an ultimate goal, currently being pursued through digital photography, geo-tagging, and GIS. Christine studied Environmental History at the University of St Andrews, Scotland (M.Litt. 2007) and History and Literature at Harvard College (A.B. 2006).