PhD, The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, May 1999 - American History
Dissertation :”Wild Yankees: Settlement, Conflict, and Localism along Pennsylvania’s Northeast Frontier, 1760-1820.”
M.A., The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, May 1996 - American History
B.A., Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, May 1992 - History
Areas of Specialty
Early American History
History of Witchcraft & Witch-Hunting
Courses Taught
HST 211: Early American History Seminar
HST 309: The Revolutionary War
HST 327: The American Military Experience
HST/WMS 332: Witchcraft & Witch-hunting in Early Modern Europe
HST 390: History Research Methods: Witchcraft in 17th-Century New England
HST 4/514: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis
HST 4/516: The Invasion of America (Colonial North American History)
HST 4/527: Material Culture
HST 614: Early American Reading Seminar
Research Interests
Dr. Moyer’s has recently published “Detestable and Wicked Arts”: New England and Witch-hunting in the English Atlantic, 1640-1670” (Cornell, 2020) and “Diabolical Duos: Witch Spouses in Early New England,” in Early American Studies 20 (Summer 2022): 371-406. Currently, he is in the process of writing The Execution of Ira Stout: A Story of Murder and Justice in Antebellum Rochester, New York.
Detestable and Wicked Arts: New England and Witchcraft in the Early Modern Atlantic World. Cornell University Press, 2020.
The Public Universal Friend: Jemima Wilkinson and Religious Enthusiasm in Revolutionary America.Cornell University Press, 2015.
Wild Yankees: the Struggle for Independence along Pennsylvania’s Revolutionary Frontier, 1750-1820. Cornell University Press, 2007.
ARTICLES & ESSAYS
“Diabolical Duos: Witch Spouses in Early New England,” Early American Studies 20 (Summer 2022): 371-406.
“Prosecuting a Prophet,” New York Archivist (Fall 2017).
“Protest and Rebellion.” In American Centuries: Vol. 3, the Eighteenth Century, edited
by Brendan McConville, 217-25. New York: MTM Publishing, 2011.
“‘A Dangerous Combination of Villains’: Pennsylvania’s Wild Yankees and the Social Context of Agrarian Resistance in Early America,” Pennsylvania History, 73 (Winter 2006): 37-68.
“‘Real’ Indians, ‘White’ Indians, and the Contest for the Wyoming Valley.” In Friends and Enemies in Penn’s Woods: Indians, Colonists, and the Racial Construction of Pennsylvania, edited by William A. Pencak and Daniel K. Richter, 221-37 (notes 314-18) State College, PA: Penn State University Press, 2004.
“Pennsylvania’s Yankee Invasion: Migration, Settlement and Backcountry Resistance in the Northern Susquehanna River Valley.” In Moving On: European, Atlantic and American Migration in the Age of Expansion and Settlement, 15th-20th Centuries, edited by James M. McCord and Andrew M. Schocket, 49-56. Chapel Hill, NY: The College of William and Mary and the University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
“Diabolical Duos: Husband-Wife Witch Couples in Early New England,” The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Pittsburgh, PA, June 2019.
“New England and Witch-hunting in the English Atlantic,” National University of Ireland at Maynooth, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland, April 2019.
March 2017, “Sarah Osborn & Female Spiritual Authority in Early America,” Society of Early Americanists, Tulsa, OK.
July 2014. “Domestic Order and Spiritual Authority in the Society of Universal Friends.” SHEAR Conference, Philadelphia, PA.
January 2011. “‘Keeping up the Indian Yell’: the Intercultural Context of Agrarian Violence.” AHA Conference, Boston, MA.
July 2010. “The Friend and Friends: Contextualizing the Intersection of Religion and and Gender in the Early Republic.” SHEAR conference, Rochester, NY.
April 2009. “The Society of Universal Friends: Religion &; Gender in Revolutionary America.” National University of Ireland at Maynooth.
March 2009. “Revisiting the Public Universal Friend.” UNWHO Conference, Geneva, NY.
June 2007. “The Household Politics of Agrarian Resistance.” OIEAHC/SEA Conference, Williamsburg, VA.
January 2001. “‘Being duly sworn, doth depose and say”: The Wyoming Controversy and the Problems of Historical Narrative.” AHA Conference, Boston, MA.
November 1999. “The Wyoming Dispute and the Pennamite-Yankee Wars.” Pennsylvania Historical Association Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.
February 1995. “Pennsylvania’s Yankee Invasion: Migration, Settlement and Backcountry Resistance in the Northern Susquehanna River Valley.” EU/USA Intensive Conference/Workshop, Williamsburg, VA.
