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Emerson Woods Baker II is Professor of History at Salem State College, Salem, Massachusetts.

He has participated as a consultant to the documentary The Real Witchcraft of Salem.

Biography[]

Professor of History at Salem State College, Salem, Massachusetts (initially hired as Assistant Professor in September 1994). Specialization: early America, museum studies, archaeology, material culture, ethnohistory, and public history. His service includes five years as department chair (2002-2007) and a year as Interim Dean of the School of Graduate Studies (2009-2010).[1]

Selected bibliography[]

  • The Devil of Great Island: Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007.
  • “Salem as Frontier Outpost,” in Dane Morrison and Nancy Schultz, eds., Salem: Place, Myth and Memory. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2004, 21-42.
  • “The Spread of Lithobolia.” New England Ancestors, 9 no. 3 (2008), 29-30.

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