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Richard Weyhing

Associate Professor

Contact Information

420 Mahar Hall
315-312-3442
[email protected]

Office hours

Spring 2024

Tue/Thu 9:00 - 11:00

And By Appointment

Research

Early America, Native American history, comparative history of European empires and colonies in the early modern Atlantic world.

Publications

  • "Le Sueur in the Sioux Country: Rethinking France's Indian Alliances in the Pays d'en Haut".  Atlantic Studies (2013), Vol. 10, No. 1, 35-50.
  • "'Gascon Exagerrations': The Rise of Antoine Laumet (dit de Lamothe, Sieur de Cadillac), The Foundation of Detroit, and the Origins of the Fox Wars" in French and Indians in the Heart of North America, 1630-1815.  (Michigan State University Press, 2013), 77-112.

Education

  • Ph.D., The University of Chicago, 2012
  • MA, The University of Chicago, 2005
  • BA, (Highest Honors) The University of Michigan, 2003

Classes taught

  • U.S History to 1865
  • Colonial America
  • The American Revolution
  • Historical Methods
  • Capstone Seminar in American History