Alyssa Mt. Pleasant

Alyssa Mt. Pleasant (Tuscarora) is Assistant Professor of American Studies and History at Yale University. She received her Ph.D. in History and American Indian Studies from Cornell University. Mt. Pleasant's research focuses on early modern Haudenosaunee (or Iroquois) history. She has a broad teaching portfolio, offering courses in American Indian history and American Indian Studies. Before joining the Yale faculty, Mt. Pleasant held a research fellowship at Yale University’s Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders. Her dissertation, “After the Whirlwind: Maintaining a Haudenosaunee Place at Buffalo Creek, 1780-1825,” examines the social, political, and religious dynamics of the Buffalo Creek Reservation in western New York State. It was completed in 2007 and is currently under revision for publication. Mt. Pleasant has presented her work at numerous professional meetings, including the American Society for Ethnohistory annual conference, the Native American and Indigenous Studies conference, the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture annual conference, and the annual conference of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. She has also given invited presentations at a number of colleges and universities, historical societies, libraries, and American Indian cultural resource organizations. Mt. Pleasant is the recipient of a Morse Faculty Fellowship from Yale University for the 2009-2010 academic year. She will spend the year as a Research Associate at the McNeil Center for Early American History and Culture on the University of Pennsylvania campus.