Erika Gasser, Assistant Professor of History, University of Cincinnati Co-Sponsored with the Ohio Seminar in Early American History

Erika Gasser researches the history of gender in colonial New England, early modern England, and the Anglo-Atlantic. Her work focuses particularly on ideas of manhood in writings about witchcraft, demonic possession, and religion from the late sixteenth century to the mid-eighteenth century. She is currently revising her book manuscript, Manhood, Demonic Possession, and Witchcraft in Old and New England, and developing courses such as "Conflict and Rebellion in Early America," "Gender in Britain and North America, 1600-1850," and "Methods and Sources in Native American History."