#  Matthew Kruer 

 

 



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Matthew Kruer is Assistant Professor of Early North American History at the University of Chicago. He received his PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015. His book project, The Time of Anarchy: Colonial Rebellions and the Wars of the Susquehannocks, 1675-1685, examines a tumultuous decade during which Virginia colonists rebelled against their government, Maryland colonists launched two uprisings, and North Carolina colonists initiated a full-blown revolution. These colonial insurrections were closely connected with a spasm of wars affecting virtually every Native American nation between the Great Lakes and the Deep South. Framing this chaotic violence as a single event, the Time of Anarchy, his work shows that these apparently distinct conflicts were connected by the migrations of the Susquehannocks, a once-powerful Indian nation of central Pennsylvania. Expelled from their homes by colonial militia and scattered across much of eastern North America, these refugees exerted a political influence wildly disproportionate to their numbers, in the process reshaping both Indian nations and English colonies. This project explores the forms of power exercised by seemingly weak and vulnerable indigenous migrants, who in their struggles for survival and resurgence drove political struggle and social change in early America.

 

 

 





 

 

- ## Discipline
    
     [History](/disciplines/history)
- ## Fellowship
    
     [Postdoctoral](/fellowship/postdoctoral)
- ## Fellowship Year
    
     [2017 - 2018](/fellowship-year/2017-2018)
- ## Role
    
     [Fellows](/role/fellow)