Andrew Cayton

Contact

• caytonar@muohio.edu
• Office: Room 240 Upham Hall, Oxford Campus
• 513-529-5542
• Office hours: T R 11-12, 1:30-3

Titles

• Distinguished Professor of History
• Affiliate of the American Studies Program

Education

• PhD 1981, Brown University
• MA, Brown University
• BA, University of Virginia

Teaching and Research Interests

• North America and British Empire, 1700-1850

Recently taught courses

• HST 111 Survey of U.S. History
• AMS/HST 362 Era of the American Revolution
• AMS/HST 363 Early American Republic, 1783-1815
• HST 400 Senior Capstone: Atlantic Slave Trade
• HST 406 Rise of the British Empire
• HST 710/770 Graduate Colloquium: British Empire

Selected Publications

• The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, ed. Richard Sisson, Christian Zacher and Andrew Cayton, Indiana University Press, 2007
• The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000, with Fred Anderson, Viking, 2005
• Ohio: The History of a People, The Ohio State University Press, 2002
• The American Midwest: Essays on Regional History, edited with Susan Gray, Indiana University Press, 2001
• Contact Points: American Frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, edited with Fredrika J. Teute, University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1998
• Frontier Indiana, Indiana University Press, 1996
• The Midwest and the Nation: Rethinking the History of an American Region, with Peter S. Onuf, Indiana University Press, 1990
• The Frontier Republic: Ideology and Politics in the Ohio Country, 1780-1825, Kent State University Press, 1986

Selected Grants and Awards

• Appointed a Distinguished Lecturer for 2009-2011 by the Organization of American Historians
• Senior Resident Fellow, Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, Monticello, Virginia, February-March 2009
• Residency fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy, May 2002
• Class of 1997 Outstanding Teacher Awrd, Associated Student Government, Miami University, 1997
• Outstanding Teacher Award, The Ohio Academy of History, 1993

Work in Progress

Dr. Cayton teaches courses in the history of 18th century North America and the British Empire. His current research projects include Imperial America, 1672-1764 (with Fred Anderson of the University of Colorado, Boulder), a volume in The Oxford History of the United States. Another book project is Love in the Time of Revolution.