Alan Gallay is an American historian. He specializes in the Atlantic World and Early American history, including issues of slavery. 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, and earned an M.A. and Ph.D. from Georgetown University.

Gallay has taught at the University of Notre Dame, University of Mississippi, Western Washington University, Harvard University 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. 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

Works

  • . University of Georgia Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-8203-3018-1.
  • Alan Gallay, ed. (1994). . University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-1566-9. Alan Gallay.
  • Alan Gallay, ed. (2020). . Routledge. ISBN 978-1138891098.
  • . Yale University Press. 2003. ISBN 978-0-300-10193-5.
  • . University of Nebraska Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0-8032-2200-7.
  • Colonial and Revolutionary America, Prentice Hall 2010, ISBN 978-0-205-80969-1
  • Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire. Basic Books, 2019. ISBN 978-1541645790
  • "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.
  • John B. Boles, ed. (1988). "Planters and Slaves in the Great Awakening". . University Press of Kentucky. p. . ISBN 978-0-8131-0187-3. Alan Gallay.

External links