Patrick G. Bottiger

Patrick Gary Bottiger, a native of Minnesota, joined the history faculty in 2013. He holds a doctorate in American history from the University of Oklahoma. Prior to arriving at Kenyon, Bottiger taught at Florida Gulf Coast University and Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, Canada. His teaching interests include the American history survey, American Indian history, colonial and Revolutionary America, and comparative frontiers. In addition, he has taught classes on historical methods and a course that examined the cultural influence of corn for both Native and non-Native peoples.

Bottiger's work has appeared in the Journal of the Early Republic and other scholarly periodicals. He has held fellowships at the William L. Clements Library, the Filson Society, and participated in the Boston Summer Seminar and an NEH Summer Seminar on the problems of governance in the early republic. His first book, "Borderland of Fear: Prophetstown, Vincennes, and the Invasion of the Miami Frontier," examines how ethnic factionalism and lies precipitated violence in the Ohio River Valley at the turn of the nineteenth century.

When not in his office in Gambier, Bottiger can be found road biking or traversing the backcountry of Glacier National Park or many of the other fantastic national parks throughout the United States. If asked, he will tell students about the time when two wolves pursued him on the rocky wilds of Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior.