Michael Witgen is a professor in the Department of History and the Center for the
Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University, and he is a citizen of the Red
Cliff Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe. His publications include An Infinity of Nations:
How the Native New World Shaped Early North America, (Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2012), and “American Indians in World History,” in the Oxford
Handbook of American Indian History, ed., Fred Hoxie, (Cambridge: Oxford
University Press, April 2016). His current research examines the intersection of
race, national identity, and state making in the Old Northwest of the early republic,
and includes the essay “Seeing Red: Race, Citizenship, and Indigeneity in the Old
Northwest,” published in Journal of the Early Republic in 2018, and awarded the
Ralph D. Gray prize for best original article by the Society for Historians of the Early
American Republic. He is also the author of Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American
Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America with the press of
the Omohundro Institute for the Study of Early American History and Culture.
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Michael Witgen is a professor in the Department of History and the Center for the
Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University, and he is a citizen of the Red
Cliff Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe. His publications include An Infinity of Nations:
How the Native New World Shaped Early North America, (Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2012), and “American Indians in World History,” in the Oxford
Handbook of American Indian History, ed., Fred Hoxie, (Cambridge: Oxford
University Press, April 2016). His current research examines the intersection of
race, national identity, and state making in the Old Northwest of the early republic,
and includes the essay “Seeing Red: Race, Citizenship, and Indigeneity in the Old
Northwest,” published in Journal of the Early Republic in 2018, and awarded the
Ralph D. Gray prize for best original article by the Society for Historians of the Early
American Republic. He is also the author of Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American
Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America with the press of
the Omohundro Institute for the Study of Early American History and Culture.
