Tom Wickman is Associate Professor of History and American Studies. He received a Ph.D. in History of American Civilization from Harvard University. He also earned an A.M. in History and an A.B. in History and Literature, both from Harvard. His first book is Snowshoe Country: An Environmental and Cultural History of Winter in the Early American Northeast (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018). 

At Trinity, he offers courses in environmental history, Native American history, and colonial American history. In all courses, he draws attention to large-scale structures of power and systems of economic production and distribution, while also emphasizing the variety of local environments, everyday practices, and personal experiences.

Selected Publications:

• Wickman, Thomas. Snowshoe Country: An Environmental and Cultural History of Winter in the Early American Northeast. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
• Wickman, Thomas. “Spring Floods and Settler Colonial Ambivalence: A Microhistory of Freshets on Wright’s Island in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.” Rethinking American Disasters, eds. Cynthia Kierner, Matthew Mulcahy, and Liz Skilton (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2023), 118-137.
• Wickman, Thomas. “Our Best Places: Gender, Food Sovereignty, and Miantonomi’s Kin on the Connecticut River.” Early American Studies 19:2 (2021): 215-263.
• Wickman, Thomas. “Narrating Indigenous Histories of Climate Change in the Americas and Pacific.” Palgrave Handbook of Climate History, eds. Christian Pfister, Sam White, Franz Mauelshagen (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
• Wickman, Thomas. “The Great Snow of 1717: Settler Landscapes, Deep Snow Cover, and Winter's Environmental History.” Northeastern Naturalist 24:special issue 7 (2017): H81-H114.
• Wickman, Thomas. “‘Winters Embittered with Hardships’: Severe Cold, Wabanaki Power, and English Adjustments, 1690-1710.” The William & Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 72, no. 1 (January 2015): 57-98.
• Wickman, Thomas. “Arithmetic and Afro-Atlantic pastoral protest: The place of (in)numeracy in Gronniosaw and Equiano.” Atlantic Studies 8, no. 2 (June 2011): 189-212; reprinted in Abolitionist Places, eds. Jared Hickman and Martha Schoolman (London: Taylor & Francis, 2013).

Selected Presentations:

• Wickman, Thomas. “‘Our Coves’: Tidal Fishing Nets, Conflict in the 1630s, and #LandBack in the Native Northeast.” Conference Paper, American Society for Environmental History, Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, March 23, 2023.
• Wickman, Thomas. “Dawnland Winters: Decolonizing One Season’s History.” Invited Lecture, Museum of the White Mountains, Plymouth, NH, July 7, 2022.
• Wickman, Thomas. “Grounded Histories of Climate in the Native Northeast and Colonial New England.” Invited Lecture in honor of John Quinlan Murphy, Redwood Library, Newport, RI, July 9, 2022.
• Wickman, Thomas. “A Political Ecology of When and Where: Phenology, Fowling, and Trespass in the 1630s.” McNeil Center for Early American Studies (MCEAS), University of Pennsylvania, “The Climate Crisis: Early Americanists Respond,” Philadelphia, PA, June 17, 2022.
• Wickman, Thomas. “Snowshoes, Wabanaki Sovereignty, and ‘New England Winters’ in the Colonial Imagination.” Invited Lecture, Trinity ALL, Hartford, CT, April 14, 2022.
• Wickman, Thomas. “Sequassen and Land Acknowledgments at Suckiaug/Hartford.” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, April 2, 2022.
• Wickman, Thomas. “Snow Cover and Winter Knowledge in the Little Ice Age.” Invited Lecture, Historic Deerfield lecture series, “The Big Chill: Early History of Climate Change,” via Zoom, March 27, 2022.
• Wickman, Thomas. “Winter’s History and Winter’s Future.” Invited Lecture, Mather Homestead, Darien, CT, January 26, 2022.
• Wickman, Thomas.  “Wintering Well in Native New England: Histories and Futures,” Indigenous History Conference, “Here it Began: 2020 Hindsight or Foresight,” organized by Linda Coombs and Joyce Rain Anderson, Wampanoag Advisory Committee, Plymouth 400, Bridgewater State University, October 4, 2020.
• Wickman, Thomas. “Winter’s History and Winter’s Future.” University at Albany, State University of New York, Invited Lecture, Albany, NY, December 5, 2019.
• Wickman, Thomas. “‘[O]ur plaines,’ our ‘grass,’ ‘our Coves,’ ‘our Clambanks,’: Deep Time, Sustenant Landscapes, and Gendered Sovereignty in Miantonomi’s Speech.” North American Conferences on British Studies, Vancouver, BC, Canada, November 15, 2019.
• Wickman, Thomas. “Snow and Subsistence.” Concordia University, Invited Lecture, Montreal, QC, Canada, July 17, 2019.
• Wickman, Thomas. “Black Fertile Earth: Governing Land and River at Suckiaug/Hartford, 1633-1650.” CUNY Early American Republic Seminar, New York, NY, May 17, 2019.
• Wickman, Thomas. “Black Fertile Earth: A Political Ecology of Suckiaug/Hartford.” MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History, Cambridge, MA, February 22, 2019.
• Wickman, Thomas. “Snowshoe Country: An Environmental and Cultural History of Winter in the Early American Northeast” (book lecture). Amherst College, Amherst, MA, February 21, 2019.
• Wickman, Thomas, with Lisa Brooks, Strother Roberts, Ashley Smith, and Cedric Woods. “Native American Environmental History.” Boston Seminar on Environmental History, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA, October 9, 2018.
• Wickman, Thomas. “Spring Floods and the Shape of Change on the Lower Connecticut.” Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Annual Meeting, Williamsburg, VA, June 15, 2018.
• Wickman, Thomas. “Snowshoes and Sense of Place in the Anglo-Wabanaki Wars, 1675-1725.” Invited Lecture, Old Berwick Historical Society, “Forgotten Frontier: Untold Stories of the Piscataqua,” South Berwick, ME, November 16, 2017.
• Wickman, Thomas. “Urban-Colonial Climate Histories.” Radcliffe Institute Seminar, “Climate and Colonization: The Case of North America,” Cambridge, MA, October 20, 2017.
• Wickman, Thomas. “What We Talk About When We Talk About Winter.” Radcliffe Institute Seminar, “Climate and Colonization: The Case of North America,” Cambridge, MA, October 20, 2017.
• Wickman, Thomas. “Hoofed Animals in the Snow: Ungulate Geographies and Indigenous Knowledge in the Little Ice Age.” American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 31, 2017.
• Wickman, Thomas. “Yoked for Winter: Oxen, the Anglo-Wabanaki Wars, and the Little Ice Age.” Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Annual Meeting, Worcester, MA, June 25, 2016.
• Wickman, Thomas. “Cold Bodies and Continuance in the Native Northeast: Indigenous Women's Access to Mudflats in the Little Ice Age.” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI, May 21, 2016.
• Wickman, Thomas. “Icy Prospects, Hard Falls, and Boreal Analogies in Colonial New England.” Ice Cubed: An Inquiry into the Aesthetics, History, and Science of Ice, Heyrman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University, New York City, NY, April 21, 2016.
• Wickman, Thomas. “Snowshoes and Counter-Atlantic Spaces.” New York University Atlantic History Workshop, New York City, NY, December 8, 2015.
• Wickman, Thomas. “From the First Snow: Indigenous and Colonial Knowledge of Snowfall and Snow Cover in the Northeast.” University of Minnesota Early Modern Atlantic Workshop, Minneapolis, MN, November 13, 2015.
• Wickman, Thomas. “The Political Ecology of Frostfish in Dawnland during the Little Ice Age.” International Conference of Historical Geographers, London, UK, July 9, 2015.
• Wickman, Thomas. “The Great Snow of 1717: English and Algonkian Interpretations.” Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, April 16, 2015.
• Wickman, Thomas. “Dead Sheep and ‘Wild’ Winter Vistas: The Crisis of Pastoral Landscapes in the Era of Anglo-Wabanaki Wars, 1675-1725.” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, January 4, 2014.
• Wickman, Thomas. “Perilous Connection: Boston Neck, Freezing Dea

• Strengthening Sustainability in Trinity's Curriculum Grant, Mellon Foundation, Trinity College, 2014.
  
• Graduate Society Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Harvard University, 2011.
• Derek Bok Center Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University, 2010.
• Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize, Harvard College, 2007.
• Dorothy Hicks Lee Prize, Harvard College, 2007.
• Perry Miller Prize, Harvard College, 2007.