Tyler Boulware 
Assistant Professor
G3A Woodburn Hall
(304)293-2421 x5230
Ph.D., University of South Carolina
Teaching Fields/Research Interests:
Early America, Native Americans, Frontiers/Boderlands, Colonial South
Recent and Forthcoming Publications:
"The Impact of the Seven Years' War on the Cherokee Nation" Early American Studies (forthcoming October, 2007)
" 'Traders, Pedlars, and Idle Fellows': Community Boundaries and Collective Identity in the Southeastern Deerskin Trade" in Mariah Adin and Tara E. Czechowski, eds., The Commercial Gaze in the Long Eighteenth Century (forthcoming AMS Press, Inc.)
"Native Americans and National Identity in Early North America" History Compass, Vol. 4(5), August 2006, 927-932.
" 'Bound to live and die in defence of their country': Conflict and Community in Cherokee Country" Journal of Early American Wars and Armed Conflicts, vol. 1, no.1, November 2005, 2-21.
Recent Conferences:
"Who were the Cherokees? An Outsider's Perspective," Our Past Before Us: The Search for the South Carolina Upcountry. A Conference Jointly Sponsored by Clemson University and Furman University, Clemson and Greenville, SC, March 2007.
"Border Conflict and Group Identity in the Early South: Cherokee and Euroamerican Conceptions of Community," The Filson Institute 2nd Academic Conference, "Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on North American Borderlands," Louisville KY, October 2006.
" 'their chief and most favourite game': The Ball Play and Cherokee Ethnic Identity during the Pre-Removal Era," 12th Annual Conference of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Quebec City, Canada, June 2006.
" 'bound to live and die in defence of their country': Conflict and Community in Cherokee Country," Annual Meeting of the South Carolina Historical Association, Columbia SC, March 2006.
" 'we fixed the whole nation in a state of war against us': The Impact of the Seven Years' War on the Cherokee Nation," 120th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Philadelphia, PA, January 2006.
" 'an Intimacy between them ought to be avoided': Indians, Africans, & the Shifting Boundaries of Identity," 119th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Seattle WA, January 2005.
"The Meaning of Frontier in the 18th-Century South," Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Atlanta GA, November 2004.
" 'a dangerous sett of horse-thieves and vagrants': Outlaws of the Southern Frontier during the Revolutionary Era," Annual Meeting of the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Savannah GA, March 2004.
