History professor receives Harvard dissertation prize
Assistant Professor of History Camden Elliott has received the Harold K. Gross Dissertation Prize from the Department of History at Harvard University. The award recognizes the doctoral graduate whose dissertation shows the greatest promise for a distinguished career in historical research.
Elliott earned the award for his dissertation, "War in Wôbanak: Environmental Histories of the French and Indian Wars, 1675–1763." After earning his doctorate from Harvard University, he joined Auburn's Department of History in 2025.
An environmental historian of Native North America, Elliott studies the relationships among warfare, violence and the natural world in early America. His research examines nearly a century of conflict between the Wabanaki Confederacy and British colonists in the early North American Northeast.
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