Susan M. Abram, an independent scholar and adjunct instructor at Western Carolina University and Southwestern Community College, received her doctorate from Auburn University in 2009. In addition to teaching, Abram serves as the president of the North Carolina Trail of Tears Association which works with the National Parks Service to promote, protect, and preserve the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail. Her recent publications include the chapters “The Cherokee Beloved Occupation: Warfare, Gender, and Community” in New Men: Essays on Manliness in Early America (NYU Press, 2011) and “Cherokees in the Creek War” in Tohopeka: Rethinking the Creek War and the War of 1812 (Pebble Hill Books, 2012). Her forthcoming book, Forging a Cherokee-American Alliance in the Creek War: From Creation to Betrayal, won the 2013 Anne B. and James B. McMillan Prize in Southern History and is scheduled for release by the University of Alabama Press in November 2015.
Susan M. Abram’s Featured Article:
- “Andrew Jackson’s Fall Campaign in the Creek War (1813-1814)” (Issue 118)
