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Hello and welcome. My name is Marie Balsley Taylor. I’m an experienced researcher and educator who is telling new stories about America’s past.

As an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, my research explores the ways that Early American Protestant writers were shaped by their encounters and relationships with native people in the colonial period.

My monograph, Indigenous Kinship, Colonial Texts, and the Contested Space of Early New England shows how  diplomatic relationships between Early Protestant missionaries and Algonquian sachems influenced the language that the missionaries used to describe Early American Protestant religious experience. I have also published articles on the early New England Quakers, the role of Indigenous diplomacy in the Puritan Colonial Indian Mission, and on the relationship between kinship and Indigenous archives in the digital age. 

As an educator, I have several years of experience teaching undergraduate and graduate-level courses in Literature, History, and Composition. Additionally, I have spent five years mentoring students in professional writing and development.