Susan M. Abram, a Ph.D. candidate from Auburn University, graduated from Western Carolina University (B.S., M.A). Arriving at Auburn from her home in the Smoky Mountains, Abram majored in Early American History with minor fields in Modern World History (colonization/decolonization) and Modern American History.
Susan expects to defend her dissertation, “Souls in the Treetops: Cherokee Masculinity, War, and Community, 1760-1820,” no later than spring, 2009. She has presented papers at numerous conferences, including the Georgia Association of Historians, American Society for Ethnohistory, Southern Historical Association, and Horseshoe Bend National Military Park. Her research interests focus on Southern History (Appalachian and Southeastern Indians), environmental history, and colonization/decolonization (including Africa).
Abram has received multiple awards, including the Marguerite Scharnagel Dissertation Writing Fellowship and has served as an Article Referee for The Alabama Review and worked for the new online Encyclopedia of Alabama where she authored, "The Cherokees in Alabama." Susan and her husband Michael own the Cherokee Heritage Museum and Gallery in Cherokee, NC, and have two children, five grandchildren, and a miniature long-hair dachshund.
Classes Taught at Auburn: History of Southeastern Indians; U.S. Environmental History; U.S. History to 1877 Survey.
Classes Taught at WCU:
HIST 142 American Lives: History Through Biographies
Phone: 227-2735
McKee 222-A