John Bradstreet Weaver

Mr. Weaver’s research interests include Borderlands, Ethnicity and Identity, Material Culture, and War and Society. He is a PhD. candidate who began in Fall 2019, and anticipates graduating in Spring 2025. Prior to starting graduate school, he worked as an English Language Teaching Assistant for the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education in cooperation with Fulbright Austria, and as a historic interpreter for the Old Fort Niagara Association, with whom he continues to volunteer. While undertaking research for his dissertation project, "Rifles and Riflemen: Material Culture, Violence, and Early American Identity, 1720-1820," he has been awarded fellowships from the American Philosophical Society, the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture, and the Society of the Cincinnati, among others. He has presented his research at conferences which include the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, the Seminar on the American Revolution at Fort Ticonderoga, and the Arsenals of History Symposium at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West.