Witgen, Michael

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Fall 2024:  ON LEAVE

Michael Witgen is a professor in the Department of History and the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University. He is a citizen of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe.  Witgen studies Indigenous and Early American history with a particular focus on the Great Lakes and Upper Mississippi Valley. His publications include “An Infinity of Nations: How the Native New World Shaped Early North America, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012), and Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America, which was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in history, winner of the James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians, the Caughey Prize from the Western History Association, and the state history prize from the Historical Society of Michigan.