Andrew Cayton
On leave, 2012-13 academic year
Department Profile
Title(s):
University Distinguished Professor of History; Affiliate of the American Studies Program
Education:
- PhD, 1981, Brown University
- MA, 1977, Brown University
- BA, 1976, University of Virginia
Teaching and Research Interests:
North America and British Empire, 1670-1800
Courses Recently Taught:
- HST 111 Survey of U.S. History
- HST 198 World History since 1500
- 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 670 Graduate Colloquium: British Empire
Selected Publications:
- Love in the Time of Revolution: Transatlantic Literary Radicalism and Historical Change, 1793-1818, University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Spring 2013.
- "The Authority of the Imagination in an Age of Wonder," (SHEAR Presidential Address), Journal of the Early Republic 33.1 (Spring 2013).
- 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:
- Fellow, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle, North Carolina, for Imperial America, 1672-1764, September 2012-May 2013.
- President, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, 2011-2012.
- Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians, 2009-2014.
- Senior Resident Fellow, Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, Monticello, Virginia, February-March 2009.
- Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy, May 2002.
- John Adams Professor of American Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands, Spring 1999. Fulbright Commission.
- Class of 1997 Outstanding Teacher Award, Associated Student Government, Miami University, 1997.
- Outstanding Teacher Award, 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 project is Imperial America, 1672-1764 (with Fred Anderson of the University of Colorado, Boulder), a volume in The Oxford History of the United States.