Evan Haefeli

Evan Haefeli, Associate Professor of History at Columbia University, specializes in colonial American and Native American history. He has published on indigenous relations with European colonists, the experience of captivity, the history of the book in early America, colonial revolts, witchcraft, religious conflict, conversion, and toleration, as well as the role of European imperial competition in shaping colonial American society. He is currently completing a long-term study of the complex origins of American religious pluralism. His research interests include early modern religion and colonial American society (especially in New England and the Mid-Atlantic), politics, cross cultural relations, comparative colonialism, frontier relations, the history of the book, Atlantic history, and the history of religious tolerance.