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Professor of History Truman State University
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Daniel Mandell has been on the Truman faculty since 1999, teaching early America, Native American history, and the history of American law. His sixth book, King Philip's War: Colonial Expansion, Native Resistance, and the End of Indian Sovereignty (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010), written for general readers and college survey classes, was named an "Outstanding Academic Title" by the American Library Association's Choice magazine. His previous book, Tribe, Race, History: Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780-1880 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), was given the inaugural Lawrence Levine Award in 2008 by the Organization of American Historians for the best book on American cultural history. He is also faculty advisor for Truman Hillel. Prof. Mandell received his doctorate and masters degrees in History from the University of Virginia. He also received a masters degree in Urban and Environmental Policy from Tufts University and a bachelors degree in History from Humboldt State University, California. He has written King Philip's War: The Conflict Over New England (Chelsea House Publications, 2007); the Northern and Western New England Treaties and Southern New England Treaties volumes (nos. 19 and 20) in the series Early American Indian Documents: Treaties and Laws (University Press of America, 2003); and Behind the Frontier: Indians in Eighteenth-Century Eastern Massachusetts (University of Nebraska Press, 1996). He has also published various articles in edited collections, encyclopedias, and journals including the Journal of American History and the William and Mary Quarterly. Prof. Mandell has received research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Truman State University, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Library Company of Philadelphia, American Antiquarian Society, Old Sturbridge Village, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He is an elected Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the oldest historical preservation and research society in the United States, and an elected non-resident member of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts. He has served on the Organization of American Historians’ Committee on the Status of African American, Latino/a, Asian American, and Native American Historians (ALANA) and History; as a historical consultant for the Early Encounters in North America website and a forthcoming Gale website of Native American historical resources; and worked as a historical consultant for the Nipmuc Nation of central Massachusetts in their effort to obtain federal recognition. |
