Jennifer Monroe McCutchen

Jennifer Monroe McCutchen is an Assistant Professor in the History Department at the University of St. Thomas, specializing in Early American and Native American history with thematic focus on gender, power dynamics, exchange systems, and diplomacy.

Her current research project examines:

• Ethnohistorical analysis of gunpowder in late 18th-century Creek Confederacy
• Intersections of material culture and political power
• Indigenous strategies in colonial encounters
• Gender roles in intercultural exchange

Dr. McCutchen teaches courses covering early American history from colonial encounters through the Civil War, with special attention to relationships between Native Americans, Africans, and Europeans. Her courses emphasize historical reasoning through analysis of primary evidence within its cultural and temporal context.