Specialties: Native American Representations, State and Federal Recognition, Indians of the Northeast, ethnohistory, the vanishing Indian in New England, U.S. colonial history, colonial America, race, class, and gender analysis as it pertains to history. Publications:
Dispossession by Degrees: Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650-1790. O'Brien, Jean, Cambridge University Press, 1997., Divorced from the Land: Accommodation Strategies of Indian Women in 18th Century New England. O'Brien, Jean, 1996. "Why Here? Scholarly Locations for American Indian Studies". O'Brien, Jean, American Quarterly, 2003., "'Vanishing' Indians in Nineteenth-Century New England: Local Historians' Erasure of Still-Present Indian People". O'Brien, Jean, Sergei Kan and Pauline Turner Stong, eds., New Perspectives on Native North America, 2006., "'Our old and valuable liberty': A Natick Indian Petition in Defense of their Fishing Rights, 1748". O'Brien, Jean, Kristina Bross and Hilary Wyss, eds., Early Native Literacies in New England: A Documentary and Critical Anthology, Forthcoming, 2007.