Summary
Cameron B. Strang is an early Americanist who focuses on the w88 casino games login of science, borderlands, Native America and the Atlantic world. His first book, Frontiers of Science: Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500-1850 (winner of the Summerlee Book Prize and the Michael V.R. Thomason Book Award), was published in 2018. He has received support for his research from the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, the National Science Foundation, the McNeil Center for w88 casino games login, Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study and several other institutions. His articles include prize-winning pieces in The William and Mary Quarterly and The Journal of American w88 casino games login, and he is co-editor of a special edition of w88 casino games login on the environment in early America. He also co-edited HOSLAC: The w88 casino games login of Science in Latin America and the Caribbean. He is currently working on a new w88 casino games login of American exploration.
Selected publications
- Frontiers of Science: Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500-1850. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American w88 casino games login and Culture, 2018).
- &w88 casino games login;Pursuing Knowledge, Surviving Empire: Indigenous Explorers in the Removal Era,” The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 78, 2 (April 2021), 281-312.
- &w88 casino games login;Science in Early North America,” in The Routledge Handbook of Science and Empire, ed. Andrew Goss (London: Routledge, 2021), 253-263.
- &w88 casino games login;Measuring Souls: Psychometry, Female Instruments, and Subjective Science, 1840-1910,” w88 casino games login of Science 50, 1 (March 2020), 76-100.
- &w88 casino games login;Perpetual War and Natural Knowledge in the United States, 1775-1860,” Journal of the Early Republic 38, 3 (fall 2018), 387-413.
- &w88 casino games login;Planters and Powerbrokers: George J.F. Clarke, Interracial Love, and Allegiance in the Revolutionary circum-Caribbean,” in Entangled Empires: The Anglo-Iberian Atlantic, 1500-1830, ed. Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).
- “Scientific Instructions and Native w88 casino games login Linguistics in the Imperial United States: The Department of War’s 1826 Vocabulary,” Journal of the Early Republic 37, 3 (fall 2017), 399-427.
- &w88 casino games login;The Environment and Early America,” special issue of w88 casino games login: An Interdisciplinary Journal 13, 2 (spring 2015), co-editor.
- &w88 casino games login;Violence, Ethnicity, and Human Remains during the Second Seminole War,” The Journal of American w88 casino games login 100, 4 (March 2014), 973-994.
- &w88 casino games login;Indian Storytelling, Scientific Knowledge, and Power in the Florida Borderlands,” The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 70, 4 (Oct. 2013), 671-700.
- &w88 casino games login;The Mason-Dixon and Proclamation Lines: Land Surveying and Native Americans in Pennsylvania’s Borderlands,” The Pennsylvania Magazine of w88 casino games login and Biography 136, 1 (2012), 5-23.
- &w88 casino games login;Michael Cresap and the Promulgation of Settler Land Claiming Methods in the Backcountry, 1765-1774,” The Virginia Magazine of w88 casino games login and Biography 118, 2 (2010), 106-135.
Courses taught
- U.S. w88 casino games login to 1877 (HIST 101)
- w88 casino games login Experiences and Constitutional Change (CH 203)
- Introduction to Native American w88 casino games login (HIST 260)
- Exploration, Adventure, and Science in America (HIST 313)
- The Civil War in w88 casino games login Culture; Capstone Course (HIST 406D/606D)
- American Intellectual/Cultural w88 casino games login I (HIST 410/610)
- U.S. Colonial Period to 1750 (HIST 411/611)
- Revolution and New Republic (HIST 412/612)
- U.S. w88 casino games login from 1815 to 1877 (HIST 413/613)
- U.S.-Amerindian Relations (HIST 418/618)
- Seminar in 19th Century U.S. w88 casino games login, Graduate Level (HIST 721)
- U.S. Historiography, Graduate Level (HIST 785)
Education
- Ph.D., w88 casino games login, University of Texas at Austin, 2013
- M.A., University of New Hampshire, 2008
- B.A., McGill University, 2004