John Winters
Assistant Director, George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
Pond Building
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Education:
PhD City University of New York
MA George Mason University
BA Rowan University
Biography:
Dr. Winters is Assistant Director of the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center and Visiting Assistant Professor of History at the Pennsylvania State University. He studies Indigenous and museum history across the long nineteenth century and is author of “The Amazing Iroquois” and the Invention of the Empire State (Oxford University Press, 2023). Dr. Winters is also a public historian who directed the public history program at the University of Southern Mississippi and served for seven years as public historian at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College and George Washington’s Mount Vernon.