Todd Romero
Assistant Professor (Colonial America, Native American History)
563 Agnes Arnold Hall
(713) 743-3112
tromero2@uh.edu

Todd Romero received his BA from the University of Colorado at Boulder and his Ph.D. from Boston College. Before joining the University of Houston History Department, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Boston College from 2004 to 2006, where he taught American and European history. Romero’s research has been supported by fellowships from the Newberry Library, the John Nicholas Brown Center for American Civilization, and the Huntington Library. He also received a research grant from the Phillips Fund for Native American Research at the American Philosophical Society.

Teaching:
Professor Romero teaches the first half of the American history survey and plans to offer undergraduate and graduate courses on colonial American, Native American, and Atlantic world history.

Research:
Professor Romero is revising a manuscript on the role of masculinity in Anglo-Indian relations for publication by the University of Massachusetts Press. He is also working on a book-length study of colonialism and Native American children tentatively titled "Colonizing Childhood." Both of these projects reflect his interest in religion, colonialism, gender, violence, labor, and race in early America.  

Romero has presented his research at a number of conferences including the Reinterpreting New England Indian History and the Colonial Experience conference sponsored by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, the Boston Area Early American History Seminar held by the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, and the American Historical Association Annual Meeting.

Selected Publications:

Book Project
Making War and Minting Christians: Masculinity, Religion, and Colonialism in Early New England (forthcoming, University of Massachusetts Press).

Articles
" 'Ranging Foresters' and 'Women-Like Men': Physical Accomplishment, Spiritual Power, and Indian Masculinity in Early Seventeenth-Century New England,” Ethnohistory 53:02 (Spring 2006): 281-329.

"Colonizing Childhood: Religion, Gender, and Indian Children in New England, 1620-1720" in James Marten, ed., Children in Colonial America (forthcoming, New York University Press, 2006).

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