Todd Romero
Assistant Professor
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- Phone: (713) 743-3112
- Email: tromero2@uh.edu
- Office: 563 Agnes Arnold Hall
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, the Huntington Library, and the Massachusetts Historical Society. 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 as well as undergraduate and graduate courses on colonial American, Native American, and Atlantic world history.
Research Interests
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 two other projects. The first study focuses on Indian children from New England to the Chesapeake and is titled Colonizing Childhood: Native American Children in British North America and the second work is titled King Philip: Being Indian and Becoming Colonial in New England. All of these projects reflect Romero’s interest in religion, colonialism, gender, childhood, 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 and the “Brown Bag” series both hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, the American Historical Association Annual Meeting and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Annual Conference.
Selected Publications
Book
- Making War and Minting Christians: Masculinity, Religion, and Colonialism in Early New England(Forthcoming, University of Massachusetts Press).
Articles
- “Totherswamp’s Lament: Christian Indian Fathers and Sons in Early Massachusetts,” Journal of Family History, 33:1 (January 2008). [The article was part of the “Forum on Race and the Family in the United States: The Other(s)” published by the journal.]
- “Colonizing Childhood: Religion, Gender, and Indian Children in New England, 1620-1720” in James Marten, ed., Children in Colonial America (New York: New York University Press, 2007).
- “‘Ranging Foresters’ and 'Women-Like Men’: Physical Accomplishment, Spiritual Power, and Indian Masculinity in Early Seventeenth-Century New England,” Ethnohistory 53:02 (Spring 2006).