Max Flomen

Max Flomen is an Assistant Professor of History at West Virginia University, located at 313 Chitwood Hall. His research focuses on colonial North America, particularly borderlands regions, Indigenous resistance movements, and the intersection of Native and African American emancipation efforts. He holds a Ph.D. from UCLA (2018), M.A. and B.A. from McGill University (2011, 2009).

Dr. Flomen's forthcoming monograph, Beyond Mountains: Maroons & Rebellions in the Borderlands of Northern Mexico, 1500-1840 (University of Nebraska Press, 2026), reinterprets anti-colonial struggles through Indigenous perspectives. His teaching specialties include Colonial America, Native American History, and Atlantic World studies, with courses ranging from early American history surveys to graduate seminars on Atlantic Empires.

His research employs interdisciplinary methods from archaeology, anthropology, and ethnohistory to trace anti-colonial epistemologies. Current research bridges Borderlands and Atlantic history frameworks, emphasizing Indigenous agency and resistance networks. He advises graduate students in Indigenous history, Atlantic World studies, and Civil War in the West topics.

Publications include peer-reviewed articles analyzing Gulf Borderlands rebellions, Apache-Comanche dynamics, and Texas borderlands emancipation movements. His work challenges traditional narratives by centering Indigenous perspectives and transnational resistance movements.