Tom Wickman (he/him) is a historian working at the intersection of environmental history, early American studies, Atlantic history, and Native American and Indigenous Studies. He holds an AB in History and Literature, AM in History, and PhD in History of American Civilization (now American Studies), all from Harvard. His first book Snowshoe Country: An Environmental History of Winter in the Early American Northeast was published by Cambridge University Press in 2018 in the series Studies in Environment and History. His articles have appeared in William and Mary Quarterly, Early American Studies, and Atlantic Studies, and essays have been featured in The Palgrave Handbook of Climate History and Rethinking American Disasters.

Presently he is completing a book manuscript, tentatively titled River Colony: A New History of Early Connecticut, an environmental and political history of the early colonization of the lower Connecticut River from the 1620s to the 1640s, focusing on Saybrook/Pasbeshauke and Hartford/Suckiaug. The book connects the river's environmental history with larger structures of slavery, colonialism, and militarism in the English and Dutch Atlantic.

With a research focus on the seventeenth century, his courses at Trinity also follow through lines from the 1600s to the present, raise critical questions about ongoing environmental and social crises, and imagine better possible futures.

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