Kathryn H. Braund

OFFICE: Thach 331
PHONE: (334) 844-6649
EMAIL: braunkh@auburn.edu
WEBSITE: http://www.auburn.edu/~braunkh/

Kathryn H. Braund (Professor) was educated at Auburn University (MA, 1980) and the Florida State University (PhD, 1986). Her research focuses on the ethnohistory of the Creek and Seminole Indians in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Her first book was Deerskins and Duffels: The Creek Indian Trade with Anglo-America, 1685-1815 (1993). She is the co-author, with Gregory A. Waselkov, of William Bartram on the Southeastern Indians (1995). She is editor of an annotated version of Bernard Romans's A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida (1999) and an annotated edition of James Adair's 1775 classic: History of the American Indians (2005). Published articles include: "The Anglo-Spanish Contest for the Gulf Coast as Viewed from the Townsquare," in Anglo-Spanish Confrontation on the Gulf Coast During the American Revolution, pp. 90-105 (1982); "Guardians of Tradition and Handmaidens to Change: Women's Roles in Creek Economic and Social Life During the Eighteenth Century," American Indian Quarterly 14 (1990): 239-258; "The Creek Indians, Blacks, and Slavery," Journal of Southern History 57 (1991): 601-636; and "Like a Stone Wall Never to be Broke: the British Indian Boundary Line with the Creek Indians, 1763-1773," in Britain and the American South: Encounters and Exchanges from Colonial Times to Rock 'N Roll, Proceedings of the 26th Porter L. Fortune, Jr. History Symposium (2003).

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