• Erin B. Kramer is a historian of early America whose research examines how Indigenous communities experienced and responded to settler colonialism, and how Indigenous nations affected colonial development. She is the author of The Ancient House: Constructing Community in the Seventeenth-Century New York Borderlands, which was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2026. Her article, "'That she shall be forever banished from this country': Alcohol, Sovereignty, and Social Segregation in New Netherland," published in Early American Studies in 2022, won both the John M. Murrin Article Prize from the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the Clague and Carol Van Slyke Article Prize from the New Netherland Institute, as well as Honorable Mention for the Essay/Article Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender. She is currently working on a second book, a comparative study of the roles of water and irrigation in early American colonial expansion and Indigenous resistance.

    • Ph.D: University of Wisconsin-Madison
    • MA: University of Wisconsin-Madison
    • BA: Beloit College

    • The Ancient House: Constructing Community in the Seventeenth-Century New York Borderlands, University of North Carolina Press, 2026
    • “Experiencing Beverwijck through the Senses” in Delights of the Senses: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art and Life, edited by Elizabeth Nogrady and Diane Shewchuk (Albany: Albany Institute of History and Art, 2024), 33-39.
    • “Corlaer’s House: Diplomatic Spaces, Lineages, and Memory in the New York Borderlands,” William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, 79, no. 4 (October 2022): 499-532.
    • “‘That she shall be forever banished from this country’: Alcohol, Sovereignty, and Social Segregation in New Netherland,” Early American Studies 20, no. 1 (Winter 2022): 3-42.

    • Borderlands history
    • Indigenous history
    • Early America
    • Dutch empire

    • Native and Indigenous History
    • Early American History
    • Environmental History

    • Trinity University Early Career Faculty Award for Teaching and Research

    Primary faculty adviser, Indigenous Peoples' Club