Jay Gitlin
Jay Gitlin is an American historian. He is a professor of North American history at Yale University, associate director of the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers & Borders,[1][2] and an expert on French North American history.[3] He is also the Coordinator of the Committee on Canadian Studies at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies,[1] a faculty affiliate of the Yale University Native American Cultural Center,[4] and founder of the Yale Journal of Canadian Studies.[5]
Education
[edit]Gitlin received his BA, MM, and PhD degrees at Yale University.[6][3]
Awards and honors
[edit]Gitlin won the 2010 Alf Andrew Heggoy Prize for the best book in French colonial history from the French Colonial Historical Society for his book The Bourgeois Frontier.[7]
Books
[edit]- Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America’s Western Past, (W. W. Norton & Company, 1992).[8][9]
- The Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns, French Traders & American Expansion (Yale University Press, 2010)[10]
- Country Acres and Cul-de-sacs: Reimagining Connecticut, 1938 to 1952 (Wesleyan University Press, 2018)[11][12][13]
- French St. Louis (University of Nebraska Press, 2021)[14]
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Jay Gitlin | Department of History". Yale University.
- ↑ Shimer, David, ed. (2021). "An Interview With Jay Gitlin" (PDF). Yale Historical Review. pp. 88–92. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 8, 2021.
- 1 2 Budakian, Chloe (December 1, 2023). "Canada's Wingman". Yale Daily News. Retrieved May 28, 2025.
- ↑ "Affiliated Faculty | Native American Cultural Center". nacc.yalecollege.yale.edu. Retrieved May 28, 2025.
- ↑ Budakian, Chloe (December 1, 2023). "Canada's Wingman". Yale Daily News. Retrieved May 28, 2025.
- ↑ "Class News: Nancy Upper lands Jay Gitlin gig in Boston in November 2020". yale64.org. Retrieved May 28, 2025.
- ↑ "The William Shorrock Travel Award". French Colonial.
- ↑ Gitlin, Jay; Miles, George; Cronon, Williams (1992). Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past (PDF). W. W. Norton & Company.
- ↑ "Redpath - Family Vacationlands in the Fifties". yaleclubofcapecod.org. Retrieved May 28, 2025.
- ↑ Englebert, Robert (May 12, 2011). "The Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns, French Traders & American Expansion (review)". Histoire sociale / Social History. 44 (2): 419–421 – via Project MUSE.
- ↑ Dennis, Kelly (October 1, 2019). "Country Acres and Cul-De-Sacs: Connecticut Circle Magazine Reimagines the Nutmeg State, 1938–1952". Connecticut History Review. 58 (2): 104–107. doi:10.5406/connhistrevi.58.2.0104 – via scholarlypublishingcollective.org.
- ↑ Silber, Tony (January 31, 2019). "The magazine publisher who shaped CT's image in the middle of the 20th century". CT Insider.
- ↑ "Yale professor spent 3 years researching decades-old articles to share Connecticut's history in book". WTNH. December 17, 2018.
- ↑ Kastor, Peter J.; Morrissey, Robert Michael; Gitlin, Jay (2021). French St. Louis: Landscape, Contexts, and Legacy. France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
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