Professor Mandell received his bachelor’s degree at Humboldt State University, an M.A. in urban and environmental studies from Tufts University, and both an M.A. and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Virginia. He has devoted most of his research and writing to the history of native Americans in New England, a subject on which he is a leading scholar. His books include Behind the Frontier: Indians in Eighteenth-Century Eastern Massachusetts (1996), King Philip’s War: the Conflict Over New England (2007), and Tribe, Race, History: Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780-1880 (2010). The Society supported Professor Mandell with a short-term fellowship in 1995.