Alan Gallay is an American

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

. He specializes in the Atlantic World and Early American history, including issues of

slavery Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour. Slavery typically involves compulsory work, with the slave's location of work and residence dictated by the party that holds them in bondage. Enslavemen ...

. He won the Bancroft Prize in 2003 for his ''The Indian Slave Trade: the Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717.''

Life

He graduated from

University of Florida The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida, United States. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida and a preem ...

, and earned an M.A. and Ph.D. from

Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private Jesuit research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic higher education, Ca ...

. Gallay has taught at the

University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame du Lac (known simply as Notre Dame; ; ND) is a Private university, private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, United States. Founded in 1842 by members of the Congregation of Holy Cross, a Cathol ...

University of Mississippi The University of Mississippi (Epithet, byname Ole Miss) is a Public university, public research university in University, near Oxford, Mississippi, United States, with a University of Mississippi Medical Center, medical center in Jackson, Miss ...

Western Washington University Western Washington University (WWU or Western) is a public university in Bellingham, Washington, United States. The northernmost university in the contiguous United States, WWU was founded in 1893 as the state-funded New Whatcom Normal School, s ...

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

and the University of Auckland, as a Fulbright Lecturer. He previously held the Warner R. Woodring Chair in Atlantic World and Early American History, and was Director of The Center for Historical Research at

Ohio State University The Ohio State University (Ohio State or OSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States. A member of the University System of Ohio, it was founded in 1870. It is one ...

. Twice he taught for the American Heritage Association in London. He currently holds the Lyndon B. Johnson Chair of U.S. History at Texas Christian University.

Awards

* Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellow in the Humanities, Harvard University 1990-1991 * J. William Fulbright Lecturer in Colonial American History, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand 1992 *

National Endowment for the Humanities The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency of the U.S. government, established by thNational Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965(), dedicated to supporting research, education, preserv ...

Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars 1990–1991, 1997-1998 * 2003 Bancroft Prize * 2004 Washington State Book Award

Works

* * * * * * ''Colonial and Revolutionary America'', Prentice Hall 2010,
"Forgotten Story of Indian Slavery", ''Race and History'', 2003
*''Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire''. Basic Books, 2019. *"Defining the European Frontier City in Early Modern Asia: Goa, Macau, and Manila," in ''Frontier Cities: Encounters at the Crossroads of Empire'', eds., Jay Gitlin ''et al''. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. *

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21st-century American historians American male non-fiction writers Living people University of Florida alumni Georgetown University alumni University of Notre Dame faculty University of Mississippi faculty Western Washington University faculty Harvard University faculty Academic staff of the University of Auckland Ohio State University faculty Bancroft Prize winners 21st-century American male writers 1957 births {{US-historian-stub