NEH Staff and Scholars
Workshop Staff
Richard Strum, Fort Ticonderoga’s Director of Education, serves as Project Director for the workshop. Rich has over twenty years’ experience in the museum education field and has been at Fort Ticonderoga since 1999. He is the author of two books for young readers related to the American Revolution. Rich earned an M.A.Ed. in Museum Education at the College of William and Mary.
Timothy Potts, middle school teacher at Robert J. Kaiser Middle School in Monticello, New York, serves as Master Teacher for the workshop. Tim has taught middle school social studies for over twenty years and was named the New York State Council for the Social Studies (NYSCSS) Middle Level Educator of the Year in 2005. He currently serves as Vice President of NYSCSS and served on the faculty of the NEH workshop “The American Revolution in the Southern Backcountry” in 2009.
Visiting Scholars
Todd Braisted is an independent historian and founder of the Loyalist Institute. He is the co-author of Moving On: Black Loyalists in the Afro-Atlantic World.
Darren Bonaparte is a former Mohawk chief and educator from Ahkwesáhsne. His books include Creation & Confederation: The Living History of the Iroquois and A Lily Among Thorns: The Mohawk Repatriation of Káteri Tekahkwítha.
Art Cohn is the founding Executive Director of the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in Vermont, Director of the Maritime Research Institute, and an accomplished maritime archaeologist.
Douglas Egerton, history professor at LeMoyne College, is the author of Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America. He has written extensively on slavery and race relations and has a degree from Georgetown University.
William Fowler is Distinguished Professor of History at Northeastern University and former Director of the Massachusetts Historical Society. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame, he has written a number of American history books including Empires at War, an overview of the French & Indian War.
James Gabler is a Physicians’ Assistant and an 18th-century reenactor with an extensive knowledge about 18th-century medical practices.
Nancy Loane, an independent historian and graduate of the University of Miami, is the author of Following the Drum: Women at the Valley Forge Encampment.
James Kirby Martin is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Houston and the author of numerous books related to the American Revolution including Benedict Arnold: Revolutionary Hero and Forgotten Allies: The Oneida Indians and the American Revolution. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin.
Holly Mayer is Chair of the History Department at Duquesne University and is the author of Belonging to the Army: Camp Followers and Community during the Revolution. She is a graduate of The College of William and Mary.
James Nelson is an historian with a strong background in maritime history. He is the author of Benedict Arnold’s Navy and George Washington’s Secret Navy.
David Preston is Associate Professor of History at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. With an M.A. and Ph.D. from the College of William and Mary, he is the author of The Texture of Contact: European and Indian Settler Communities on the Frontiers of Iroquoia, 1667-1783.
Eric Schnitzer is a Park Ranger and Historian at Saratoga National Historical Park and expert on the Northern Campaign of 1777, especially as related to General John Burgoyne.
Erick Tichonuk is a long-time educator and replica coordinator at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, as well as an underwater archaeologist.
Gregory J. W. Urwin earned his Ph.D. at the University of Notre Dame and is Professor of History at Temple University. He is the author of numerous books and articles related to U.S. military history.
