Walter Woodward

Assistant Professor

Connecticut State Historian

Office: Storrs, 214 Wood Hall and Harfford, 210 Admininstration Bldg.
Phone: Storrs: (860) 486-3453 and Hartford: (860) 570-9089
Fax: (860) 486-0641
Email:walter.woodward@uconn.edu

Areas of Specialty

Early American/Atlantic World history, History of Connecticut

Current Research Interests

Alchemy, & the Creation of New England Culture in the 17 th Century; John Winthrop, Jr. (1606-1676); Song as a Medium of Intercultural Communication in Early America; Public Expressions of Hatred.

Selected Publications

Prospero’s America: John Winthrop, Jr., Alchemy, and the Creation of New England Culture, 1606-1676, under contract to the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture

“The Alchemy of Alchemy”, William and Mary Quarterly 60.4 October, 2003, 920-924

“New England’s Other Witch-Hunt: The Hartford Witch-hunt of the 1660s and Changing Patterns in Witchcraft Prosecution,” Organization of American HistoriansMagazine of History vol. 17.4, July, 2003

“Jamestown Estates” The William and Mary Quarterly , 3rd Ser., Vol. 48, No. 1. (Jan., 1991).