
BA, Vassar College
MA, PhD Northwestern University
Ian Saxine is a historian of early modern North America with a particular focus on Indigenous people and the Maritime Northeast. At º£½ÇÂÒÂ×, he teaches North American history up to the American Civil War era. His research focuses on colonial and Native American history, especially in New England. His first book, Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier, was published NYU Press in 2019. Saxine was the Project Historian for the Eastham 400 program, reexamining the encounter between Wampanoag and Plymouth colonists on Cape Cod in 1620, and co-hosts the podcast Mainely History (with Tiffany Link, Maine Historical Society) featuring conversations about Maine and New England in the past, to better understand them in the present. He is co-editor (with Kristalyn Shefveland of University of Southern Indiana) of a new edited volume, The Great Upheaval: War, Migration, and Transformation in Early Modern America, 1675-1725 (University of Nebraska Press, 2026)
Early American History
Native American History New England