Jennifer Monroe Mccutchen
Biographic Data
| ID | 682656 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Monroe Mccutchen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer Monroe |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccutchen |
| SIGNATURE | MCCUTCHEN J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St. Thomas - Minnesota |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rivers of Power: Creek Political Culture in the Native South, 1750-1815
Historians and anthropologists studying the Native South have long aimed to explain eighteenth-century Creek political organization. They agree that Creek peoples prioritized local governance, allowing individual clans and communities to exercise autonomous decision-making that influenced the actions of headmen beyond the town level. Yet localism was complicated, and ethnohistorians continue to grapple with how a consensus-based town governance s…
AI Meets AI: ChatGPT as a Pedagogical Tool to Teach American Indian History
Our paper illustrates how we used Artificial Intelligence to teach the tools of ethnohistory and highlight American Indian voices in our classrooms. It overviews our integration of ChatGPT in both survey and upper-level history courses at two different institutions: a small liberal arts college in the Midwest and a regional-comprehensive university in Texas. Though it acknowledges the benefits and pitfalls of using ChatGPT to teach Native America…
They Will Know in the End That We Are Men: Gunpowder and Gendered Discourse in Creek-British Diplomacy, 1763-1776
This article investigates the use of gendered discourse in Upper Creek negotiations with the British in the late eighteenth-century Southeast. It employs gunpowder and related discussions of masculinity as a tool for understanding how Native and European leaders communicated with one another to achieve their respective goals following the Seven Years' War. The lens of gunpowder, an exclusively male commodity that could only be produced in Europe,…
More Advantageous to Be with Spaniards”: Gunpowder and Creek–Spanish Encounters in Cuba, 1763– 1783
This research investigates Creek Indian and Spanish encounters in Cuba, exploring the ways in which Natives looked beyond the Southeast for access to commodities following the Seven Years’ War. It uses gunpowder as a lens to examine how ongoing Creek–Spanish relations shaped gender dynamics, personal relationships, local-level politics, and cultural structures within the Confederacy while simultaneously impacting Spanish geopolitics in the Atlant…
They Will Know in the End That We Are Men: Gunpowder and Gendered Discourse in Creek-British Diplomacy, 1763-1776
This article investigates the use of gendered discourse in Upper Creek negotiations with the British in the late eighteenth-century Southeast. It employs gunpowder and related discussions of masculinity as a tool for understanding how Native and European leaders communicated with one another to achieve their respective goals following the Seven Years' War. The lens of gunpowder, an exclusively male commodity that could only be produced in Europe,…
More Advantageous to Be with Spaniards”: Gunpowder and Creek–Spanish Encounters in Cuba, 1763– 1783
This research investigates Creek Indian and Spanish encounters in Cuba, exploring the ways in which Natives looked beyond the Southeast for access to commodities following the Seven Years’ War. It uses gunpowder as a lens to examine how ongoing Creek–Spanish relations shaped gender dynamics, personal relationships, local-level politics, and cultural structures within the Confederacy while simultaneously impacting Spanish geopolitics in the Atlant…
More Advantageous to Be with Spaniards”: Gunpowder and Creek–Spanish Encounters in Cuba, 1763– 1783
This research investigates Creek Indian and Spanish encounters in Cuba, exploring the ways in which Natives looked beyond the Southeast for access to commodities following the Seven Years’ War. It uses gunpowder as a lens to examine how ongoing Creek–Spanish relations shaped gender dynamics, personal relationships, local-level politics, and cultural structures within the Confederacy while simultaneously impacting Spanish geopolitics in the Atlant…
They Will Know in the End That We Are Men: Gunpowder and Gendered Discourse in Creek-British Diplomacy, 1763-1776
This article investigates the use of gendered discourse in Upper Creek negotiations with the British in the late eighteenth-century Southeast. It employs gunpowder and related discussions of masculinity as a tool for understanding how Native and European leaders communicated with one another to achieve their respective goals following the Seven Years' War. The lens of gunpowder, an exclusively male commodity that could only be produced in Europe,…
AI Meets AI: ChatGPT as a Pedagogical Tool to Teach American Indian History
Our paper illustrates how we used Artificial Intelligence to teach the tools of ethnohistory and highlight American Indian voices in our classrooms. It overviews our integration of ChatGPT in both survey and upper-level history courses at two different institutions: a small liberal arts college in the Midwest and a regional-comprehensive university in Texas. Though it acknowledges the benefits and pitfalls of using ChatGPT to teach Native America…
Rivers of Power: Creek Political Culture in the Native South, 1750-1815
Historians and anthropologists studying the Native South have long aimed to explain eighteenth-century Creek political organization. They agree that Creek peoples prioritized local governance, allowing individual clans and communities to exercise autonomous decision-making that influenced the actions of headmen beyond the town level. Yet localism was complicated, and ethnohistorians continue to grapple with how a consensus-based town governance s…
Political science (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (2 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works) · Gunpowder (2 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (2 works)