Neal Salisbury

Neal Salisbury (elected April 1997) died May 27, 2022. Salisbury was the Barbara Richmond 1940 Professor Emeritus in the Social Sciences at Smith College, where he taught in the Department of History from 1973 until his retirement in 2008. A historian of Native Americans in early modern North America, Salisbury’s books include Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England, 1500–1643 (1982), A Companion to American Indian History (2004, ed. with Philip J. Deloria, elected October 2000), and The People: A History of Native America (2007, with R. David Edmunds and Frederick E. Hoxie, elected April 2006), as well as a teaching edition of Mary Rowlandson’s captivity narrative (1997). He served as president of the American Society for Ethnohistory, from which he received a lifetime achievement award in 2017, among other honors. At AAS, he was the Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence in 2018–19 and served on the Indigenous Engagement Advisory Committee.