Kai R. Werner
Ph.D. Student (ABD)
Advisor:
Josh Piker
Email:
[[kwerner]]
Current Research:
Spanish Borderlands, Knowledge, the American West
Bio
Kai Werner is a fourth-year Ph.D Candidate specializing in the history of rumors and space in the early American West. His dissertation, “1,000 Approaches to the Kingdom of New Mexico,” studies the development of the idea of New Mexico through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Indigenous, European, and cross-cultural settings. As a teaching fellow at the College of William and Mary, Kai teaches courses on Spanish Borderlands and the early American West. Kai’s work has received generous backing from the Historical Society of New Mexico, the Western Historian’s Association, and the Huntington Library, among others.Kai received his Bachelor of Arts in History at the University of New Mexico in 2018 and his Master of Arts in History from the College of William and Mary in 2021.
