Nicole S. Maskiell
|Associate Professor
Associate Professor of African and African American Studies
Nicole Maskiell specializes in the colonial history of the Northeast, with a focus on early Black Americans in the region. She teaches courses that explore themes of race, family, memory, and silence. She is the author of Bound by Bondage: Slavery and the Creation of a Northern Gentry, winner of the 2023 Henricks Award for best book-length manuscript relating to New Netherland and the Dutch colonial experience. As a historian and interdisciplinary scholar, her work meditates on the lives of unsung early Americans and the enduring power of stories to shape and reshape our world.
Contact
Choate House, Room 101
HB 6134
Department(s)
African and African American Studies
Education
- A.B. Harvard University
- M.A. Cornell University
- Ph.D. Cornell University