Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative

Professor Fisher's research and teaching relate primarily to the cultural and religious history of colonial America and the Atlantic world, including Native Americans, religion, material culture, and Indigenous and African slavery and servitude. He is currently finishing a history of Native American enslavement in the English colonies and the United States between Columbus and the Indian Child Welfare Act (1978), titled Stealing America: The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in U.S. History (Liveright/Norton, 2026). He is also the principal investigator of the Stolen Relations: Recovering Stories of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas project, which is a tribal community-centered collaborative project that seeks to create a public, centralized database of Native slavery throughout the Americas and across time.