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Colin Calloway

CallowayJohn Kimball, Jr. 1943 Professor of History and Professor of Native American Studies

Office: 204 Sherman House

Office Phone: (603) 646-2076

Email: Colin.Calloway@Dartmouth.edu

Address:

  • Native American Studies Program
    Dartmouth College
    6152 Sherman House
    Hanover, NH 03755

Courses

  • 14: American Indian History: Pre-Contact to 1830
  • 15: American Indian History: 1830 to Present
  • 96: American odysseys: Lewis and Clark, Indian Country, and the New Nation

Colin Calloway is John Kimball, Jr. 1943 Professor of History and Professor of Native American Studies. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Leeds in England in 1978. After moving to the United States, he taught high school in Springfield, Vermont, served for two years as associate director and editor of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian at the Newberry Library in Chicago, and taught for seven years at the University of Wyoming. He has been associated with Dartmouth since 1990 when he first came as a visiting professor. He became a permanent member of the faculty in 1995. Professor Calloway has written many books on Native American history, including: One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark (University of Nebraska Press, 2003; winner of six "best book" awards); First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History (Bedford/St. Martins, 1999, 2004); New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997); The American Revolution in Indian Country (Cambridge University Press, 1995); The Western Abenakis in Vermont (University of Oklahoma Press, 1990); The Abenaki (Chelsea House, 1989); and Crown and Calumet: British-Indian Relations, 1783-1815 (University of Oklahoma Press, 1997). His next book, The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America, will be published by Oxford University Press in spring 2006.

Last Updated: 7/31/09