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
Gitlin received his BA, MM, and PhD degrees at Yale University.[6][3]
Awards and honors
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
- 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
- ^ a b "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.
- ^ a b 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.