Location: 
Colonial North America, Atlantic World
Evan Haefelihas a B.A. from Hampshire College (1992) and a Ph.D. from Princeton University (2000). With Kevin Sweeny he has co-authored Captors and Captives:The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield (2003) and co-edited a collection of primary documents and captivity narratives related to the same event entitled Captive Stories (2006). His current work is on the origins of religious toleration in colonial America. His interests include religion, politics,cross-cultural relations, comparative colonialism, frontier studies, witchcraft, warfare, the slave trade, and the history of the book in the early modern Atlantic World.