Nicholas Myers

Nicholas Myers

Nicholas Myers
Nicholas Myers is a historian of Mexico and the North American West. His book project, The Wayward Edge: Autonomy and Revolt in Greater Apachería, 1765-1896, is a longue durée history of Indigenous and peasant autonomy in the southern Rocky Mountains and northern Sierra Madre, examined in concert with the efforts of colonial and national states to incorporate these recalcitrant polities and their associated territory. Drawing on archival research conducted in Spain, Mexico, and the United States, as well as a deep interest in spatial theory, the project also functions as a historical reconstruction of a distinct region often subsumed by a broader conception of “borderlands.” Nicholas has been the recipient of research support from the Social Science Research Council, Cornell Institute for the Social Sciences, and now the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University. He received his PhD in history from Cornell University in 2021. Prior to that, he studied Comparative Literature at New York University and Literature and Critical Theory at the University of Montana, a background which reflects an ongoing interest in rhetorical and narrative modes of analysis.

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