Phone: 227-2735
McKee 222-A
smabram@email.wcu.edu
Susan M. Abram received her Ph.D. from Auburn University in 2009 after earning her B.S. and M.A. from Western Carolina University. Abram major is in Early American History with minor fields in Modern World History (colonization/decolonization) and Modern American History. Her breadth field is in Anthropology. Abram’s current book manuscript is “Souls in the Treetops: Cherokee Masculinity, War, and Community, 1760-1820.” She has presented papers at numerous conferences, including the National Trail of Tears Association, American Society for Ethnohistory, Southern Historical Association, and Horseshoe Bend National Military Park. She will participate in the Tennessee Bicentennial Commission’s 2nd Symposium on the Bicentennial of the War of 1812 in 2013. Her research interests focus on the Revolutionary and Early Republic eras, colonization/decolonization, environmental history, and Cherokee studies.
Abram has contributed a chapter, “The Cherokees in the Creek War,” in The Creek War and The War of 1812 in Alabama, ed. Kathryn H. Braund, by the University of Alabama Press. In addition, “The Cherokee Beloved Occupation: Warfare, Gender, and Community,” appears in New Men: Essays on Manliness in Early America, ed. Thomas A. Foster, by New York University Press. Her article “Cherokee Alliance with the United States in the Creek War, 1813-1814” will soon appear in the War of 1812 Bicentennial Issue of Tennessee Historical Quarterly. She will also be participating in the upcoming Tennessee War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission’s second War of 1812 Bicentennial Symposium in March 2013.
Abram has received multiple awards, including the Marguerite Scharnagel Dissertation Writing Fellowship, 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."
Classes Taught at WCU:
American Lives: Dreamers, Lunatics, and Ordinary People (142)
Turning Points in American History: Paths Taken and Paths Rejected (141 & online)
Turning Points in European History: Paths Taken and Paths Rejected (151)
Native American Civilizations: An Introduction to Native American History (175)
North Carolina History (341-online)
Cherokee History (445/545)