James Carson 

Professor, Chair
Ethnohistory of colonial and early national America

 

Email:  jc35@queensu.ca

Phone: 613-533-2232
Fax:  613-533-6298

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Education

Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 1996
M.A., Tulane University, 1992
B.A., University of North Carolina, 1990

About

Principal fields for graduate supervision: History of First Nations of North America
Colonial Encounters, Creolization in the Americas

Courses Taught

Undergraduate:
HIST 214, 271, 315, 467

Graduate:
HIST 810, 841

Major Publications

Books

American Exceptionalisms: From Winthrop to Winfrey, co-edited with Sylvia Sőderlind (Albany: State University of New York Press, in press)

Making an Atlantic World: Circles, Paths, and Stories from the Colonial South (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007)

Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal (University of Nebraska Press, 1999)

Chapters in Books

"Mastering Language: Indians, Rights, and Liberty in the Nineteenth Century South," Native Diasporas: Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas, edited by Gregory Smithers and Brooke Newman (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming)

"Rethinking the Tuscarora War in an Atlantic World Perspective," History of the Carolina Low Country, edited by Bradford Wood and Michelle Le Master (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, forthcoming)

"Choctaw and Chickasaw Women, 1690-1834," Mississippi Women, vol. 2, edited by Elizabeth Anne Payne, Martha H. Swain, and Marjorie Julian Spruill (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2010), 7-22

"Sacred Circles and Dangerous People: Native American Cosmology and the French Settlement of Louisiana," French Colonial Louisiana and the Atlantic World, ed. Bradley Bond (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005), 65-82

"'Dollars Never Fail to Melt Their Hearts': Native Women and the Market Revolution," Neither Lady, Nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South, edited by Michele Gillespie and Susanna Delfino (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002), pp. 15-33

"From Mohawk Woman to Loyalist Chief: The Life of Molly Brant," Sifters: Native American Women's Lives, edited by Theda Perdue (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 48-59

Peer Reviewed Articles

"Native Americans and the Atlantic World,"Oxford Bibliographies Online (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010)

"'The Obituary of Nations': Ethnic Cleansing, Memory, and the Origins of the Old South," Southern Cultures 14 (2008): 6-31.

"When is an Ocean not an Ocean?: Geographies of the Atlantic World," Southern Quarterly 43 (2006): 16-45

"American Historians and Indians," The Historical Journal 49 (2006): 1-13

"Teaching Amerindian Autohistory," American Indian Quarterly 27 (2003), 155-59

"Ethnogeography and the Native American Past," Ethnohistory 49 (Fall 2002): 765-784

"Native Americans, the Market Revolution, and Culture Change: The Choctaw Cattle Economy, 1690-1830," Agricultural History 71 (Winter 1997): 1-18; reprinted in Cultural Change and the Market Revolution in America, 1789-1860, edited by Scott Martin (Boston: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005), 71-88; reprinted in Pre-Removal Choctaw History: Exploring New Paths, edited by Greg O'Brien (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008), pp.183-99

"Horses and the Economy and Culture of the Choctaw Indians, 1690-1840," Ethnohistory 42 (1995): 495-513; reprinted in Environmental History in the American South: An Anthology, edited by Paul S. Sutter and Christopher J. Manganiello (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009), 61-79