Brett Rushforth

Tues, Thurs 7:00 – 9:00am

• Hist 220. The United States Through 1877
• Hist 490. Historical Research and Writing

Classes Taught:

• Hist 220. The United States Through 1877
• Hist 370. Colonial America
• Hist 490. Historical Research and Writing

Brett Rushforth teaches the history of early America, American Indians, and comparative race and slavery at BYU. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis in 2003, and was then selected as a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. Dr. Rushforth's research examines questions of intercultural relations in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century North America and the Caribbean. He is working to complete a book manuscript entitled Savage Bonds: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France, to be published for the Omohundro Institute by the University of North Carolina Press. His next book project, provisionally titled Smoking the Sun, will examine the role of the calumet ceremony in Native cultural relations from the 1540s to the 1780s. He lives with his wife, Rebecca, and their four daughters in Cedar Hills.