“Dutch Calvinism and Native Americans: A Comparative Study of the Motivations for Protestant Conversion among the Tupis in Northeastern Brazil (1630-1654) and the Mohawks in Central New York (1690-1715).” In The Spiritual Conversion of the Americas. Edited by James Muldoon (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004), 118-141.

Mark Meuwese
Graduate Studies Chair
Assistant Professor

Office: 3A25 Ashdown Hall
Phone: (204) 786-9010
Fax: (204) 774-4134
E-mail: m.meuwese@uwinnipeg.ca

Degrees
M.A.: Leiden University, the Netherlands
Ph.D.: University of Notre Dame

Areas of Interest
Aboriginal America; Colonial Americas Atlantic World

Courses
29.1010/6 Introduction to History
29.2609/6 History of Native American Peoples of the U.S.
29.3180/6 Comparative History of the Aboriginal Peoples
of the Americas
29.3611/6 Colonial and Revolutionary North America

Selected Publications
“Cultural Boundaries in the Backcountry of Colonial Brazil: European Diplomatic Agents among the Rio Grande Tarairius, 1642-1654,” Portuguese Studies Review 14 (1) (2006): 255-277. (Special thematic issue on “Territory, Power, and Identities in the Captaincies of Northeastern Brazil, 16th-18th Centuries).

“Powerless yet Resourceful: Brazilian Indians as Political Refugees in the Dutch Republic, 1654-1657.” In The Low Countries: Crossroads of Cultures. Edited by T.J. Broos, M. Bruyn Lacy, and T.F. Shannon (Muenster, Germany: Nodus Publikationen, 2006): 83-92.

“Flemish Bastard”, “Arent van Curler”, and “Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert.” In The Encyclopedia of New York State. Edited by Peter Eisenstadt (Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2005), 573, 1634.

“The Murder of Jacob Rabe: Contesting Dutch Colonial Authority in the Borderlands of Northeastern Brazil.” In New World Orders: Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Colonial Americas. Edited by John Smolenski and Thomas J. Humphrey (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), 133-156.