Karim M. Tiro
Jack Miller Center Founding Civics Initiative Faculty
Director of the American Founding and Constitution Program, Xavier University
Karim M. Tiro is professor of history at Xavier University, where he also serves as director of the American Founding and Constitution Program.
His courses focus on the colonial, revolutionary, and early national periods, as well as on the history of Native Americans, the War of 1812, and epidemics. He is particularly interested in how political differences in the United States today can be traced to the founding values of different colonies in the seventeenth century. Tiro is also very interested in using the history of Canada to help us better understand United States history.
He is the author of The People of the Standing Stone: The Oneida Nation from the Revolution through the Era of Removal and co-editor of Along the Hudson and Mohawk: The 1790 Journey of Count Paolo Andreani. He has contributed chapters to Strategy in the American War of Independence and War and Society in the American Revolution. His writing has appeared in scholarly outlets such as the Journal of the Early Republic and The Public Historian and popular ones including TIME.
Karim M. Tiro received his B.A. from Drew University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Research Interests:
Early American History
Native-colonist Relations
Regional Culture
The War of 1812
