Colin Gordon Calloway
Professor
Appointments
Professor of History
John Kimball Jr. 1943 Professorship
Professor of Native American Studies
Area of Expertise
Native American history,
Indian-white relations in early America
Biography
Colin Calloway is John Kimball, Jr. 1943 Professor of History and Professor of Native American Studies. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Leeds in England in 1978. After moving to the United States, he taught high school in Springfield, Vermont, served for two years as associate director and editor of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian at the Newberry Library in Chicago, and taught for seven years at the University of Wyoming. He has been associated with Dartmouth since 1990 when he first came as a visiting professor. He became a permanent member of the faculty in 1995.
Education
B.A. University of Leeds
Ph.D. University of Leeds
Publications
The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Peoples, and the Birth of the Nation (2018)
The Victory with No Name: The Native American Defeat of the First American Army (2015)
Pen and Ink Witchraft: Treaties and Treaty Making in American Indian History (2013)
The Indian History of an American Institution: Native Americans and Dartmouth , (2010)
White People, Indians, and Highlanders: Tribal People and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America , (2008).
First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History , (1999, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019).
The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America , (2006).
One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark , (2003).
Crown and Calumet: British-Indian Relations, 1783-1815 (1997)
New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Re-making of Early America , (1996; 2nd edn., 2013).
Works in Progress
The Scots-Irish Invasion of Indian Country
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