advisor:
Joshua Piker
Email:
[[zmpackel]] Current Research:
Native American/Indigenous Peoples, Environmental History, Early America
Bio
Zoë is a second-year PhD student in the History department at William & Mary. She is interested in Indigenous and environmental histories, particularly the ways in which Native ecological knowledge and agricultural practices impacted the development of early America. Zoë received a B.A. from Kenyon College in 2022, where she graduated summa cum laude and with highest honors in History. She is interested in contributing to historical narratives that aim to understand the environment not simply as a static backdrop for historic events, but rather as a site of continuous collaboration between human and non-human actors. She also hopes to engage with archaeological sources in order to bridge the gap between the colonial period and ancient America, for a historical narrative that acknowledges the deep history of Indigenous activity on the continent and how it informed Native interactions with Europeans post-contact.
