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Zo谷 Packel
Ph.D. Student
advisor:
Joshua Piker
Email:
[[zmpackel]]
Current Research:
Native American/Indigenous Peoples, Environmental History, Early America
Bio
Zoë is a third year PhD student in the History department at 91心頭利. She studies 17th and 18th century Indigenous and environmental histories, particularly the ways in which Native ecological knowledge and agricultural practices impacted the development of early America. Her research focuses on the historic water knowledge and relational mobilities of the Great Lakes Anishinaabe. 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 other-than-human actors, centering Indigenous cosmologies. 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.