Our department is pleased to welcome Dr. Jason Sellers (Ph.D., UC Irvine 2010), who joins us this year as a Visiting Assistant Professor of History. A specialist in U.S. Colonial History, Dr. Sellers recently completed a dissertation entitled ” Embodied Landscapes: Native Americans, English Colonists, and the Creation of Early American Communities.” In this study, he uses travel narratives, colonial era histories, treaty records, and other published and archival sources to examine connections between early American landscapes and bodies as well as their relation to different formations of cultural communities.
Dr. Sellers is teaching courses at UMW on Native American History and Colonial America, as well as lower-division survey classes in American History before and after 1865.
