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Erik R. Seeman is a UB Distinguished Professor in the Department of History at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), affiliated with the College of Arts and Sciences. His research focuses on Early American History, Colonial North America, the History of Religion, and Transnational History, with notable expertise in the History of Death and Indigenous Studies. He holds a PhD from the University of Michigan (1995).
Education: PhD in History, University of Michigan, 1995.
Research Interests: Colonial North America, religion, Indigenous histories, African-American experiences, and the cultural and social dimensions of death. Current project: Boston's Pox of 1721: A People's History, a book exploring the 1721 smallpox epidemic’s social and political impacts.
Publications highlight transatlantic and colonial themes, including Speaking with the Dead in Early America (2019), which won the Lawrence W. Levine Award for American cultural history. His work often bridges religious practices, mortality, and cross-cultural encounters.
- Awards: Lawrence W. Levine Award (2020), Herbert H. Lehman Prize (2010–2012), multiple Fulbright fellowships, and NEH funding.
Teaching includes courses like Death in America and Indians, Africans, and Europeans in Colonial America. His grants and fellowships support research on global religious networks and Atlantic World history. He is co-editor of The Atlantic in Global History and has contributed to major historical journals.
Seeman’s research labs and teams focus on interdisciplinary approaches to colonial history, blending archival work with public history initiatives.
