About the Presenter
Zachary Conn is a historian of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century North America and a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University.
In Fall 2025, he will take up a new position as a postdoctoral fellow in the Idaho Society of Fellows at the University of Idaho. He studied Early American History at the University of Chicago and at Yale University, where he earned a PhD in December 2022.
His first book, Federal Indian Agents of the United States, is under advance contract with the Global America series at Columbia University Press. The book will be the first modern scholarly study of the early U.S. government’s little-remembered ambassadors to Native American nations.
Conn’s scholarly writing has appeared or is forthcoming in History and Theory, Intelligence and National Security, and Diplomatic History. He is also an active public historian who is serving as the host and writer for Season 5 of the Center for Presidential History’s podcast, The Past, the Promise, the Presidency.
He has taught History at Yale, the University of New Haven, Albertus Magnus College, and a private high school on Long Island.