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Alan Gallay

Alan Gallay, Ph.D.

Professor and Lyndon B. Johnson Chair in American History, Director of Graduate Studies

817 257-6299 Reed Hall 303

Program Affiliations

AddRan College of Liberal ArtsHistory
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  • Early American History

Education

Ph.D., Georgetown University (1986)
MA, Georgetown University (1981)
BA, University of Florida (1978)

Courses Taught

HIST 30203 The Renaissance

HIST 40603 Colonial America
HIST 70603 Reading Seminar in U.S. History
HIST 80083 History as a Profession
HIST 80603 Research Seminar in U.S. History
HIST 80603 Reading Seminar in Atlantic World History

Areas of Focus

Early American, Atlantic World, Native American, U.S. South

  • Book Chapters & Reviews

    • “Forward,” The Yamasee Indians:  From Florida to South Carolina, ed., Denise Bossy (University of Nebraska Press, 2018).

    • “Defining the European Frontier City in Early Modern Asia: Goa, Macau, and Manila,” in Frontier Cities in the Early Modern World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012).

    • “Indian Slavery,” in The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas (Oxford University Press, 2010).
  • Articles & Essays

    • “Englishman John R. Jewitt's Enslavement Among the Nuu-Chah-Nulth,” Eighteenth-Century Studies, (2022), 243-253.

    • “European Slaving of Native Americans,” in Princeton Companion to Atlantic History (2015)
  • Edited Volumes

    • Voices of the Old South: Eyewitness Accounts, 1528-1861 (University of Georgia Press, 1994).
  • Books
    • Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire (Basic Books, 2019)

    • Colonial and Revolutionary America: Text and Documents (Prentice Hall, 2010).

    • Indian Slavery in Colonial America (University of Nebraska Press, 2009, 2015).

    • The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717 (Yale University Press, 2002).

    • Colonial Wars of North America, 1512-1763 (Routledge 1996, 2015, 2021).

    • The Formation of a Planter Elite: Jonathan Bryan and the Southern Colonial Frontier (University of Georgia Press, 1989, 2007).
  • “Exploring the Life and Story of Sir Walter Ralegh,” invited talk, Humankind Series, West Shore Community College, Scottville, MI, September 21, 2020
  • “Walter Ralegh, Architect of Empire,” podcast, Episode 274, Ben Franklin’s World, May 19, 2020.
  • “Walter Raleigh and the Origins of the English Empire,” Invited lecture, Athenaeum, Philadelphia, PA, February 16, 2020.
  • “Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire,” podcast, Newbooksnetwork, February 10, 2020.
  • “The Anglo—Native Atlantic in the Age of Ralegh,” Keynote, Transnational Red Atlantic Conference, University of Georgia, February 6-8, 2020.
  • “Discovering New Worlds in the 16th Century,” Brave New World program, Arizona State University, September 30, 2019.
  • Smithsonian Lecturer, Three lectures given twice each over two weeks on the American Southeast, delivered aboard ship Independence, Charleston to Jacksonville, March 22-March 30, 2019 and April 3-11, 2019
  • “Embracing the Native:  Walter Ralegh and the Origins of the English Empire,” invited talk, Annual Cone Lecture in History, University of Wyoming, October 2018.
  • “Reconsidering English Colonialism and Indigenous Peoples,” invited talk, Center for Political Thought and Leadership, Arizona State University, March 18, 2017.
  • “The Parameters of Colonialism: Conceptualilzing American Indians in Elizabethan England," invited talk, Virginia Commonwealth University, November 2016.
  • “Assimilating the Indigenous into an Elizabethan Empire in Ireland and North America,” invited talk, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario.
  • “Indian Slavery, African Slavery: The American Colonial South in Regional, Atlantic, and Global Contexts,” keynote address, Fourth Biennial Symposium on Southern History, Rice University.
  • “Indian Slavery in Colonial America,” Frauncis Tavern Museum, New York, NY.
  • “Imaging Roanoke: The First English Depictions of American Indians,” invited presentation, Arizona State University, American Indian Studies.
  • “Defining the Frontier City in the Early Modern World: A Comparison of Goa, Macao and Manila with Atlantic World Cities,” Keynote Address, Howard R. Lamar Center of Yale University, Conference, “Frontier Cities.”
  • “Beachheads into Empires, Villages into Confederacies: Atlantic World Trade and the Transformation of the American South,” invited talk for the Atlantic History Seminar at Harvard University, “Transformations: The Atlantic World in the Late Seventeenth Century.”
  • “First Encounters: Rights and Rites of Passage in the Americas,” Keynote address, Cultures in Conflict: New Perspectives on Encounters with Native Peoples of the Americas Conference, University of Toledo.
  • “Warfare as an Intercultural Learning Experience in the American Colonial Southeast,” University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
  • American Historical Association; Organization of American Historians
  • Southern Historical Association; Omohundro Institute of Early American History
  • Panelist for National Endowment for the Humanities, 2004, 2007, 2018
  • Reviewer, National Endowment for the Sciences
  • Evaluator, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
  • Tenure and Promotion Reviews, St. Louis University, Baylor University, Auburn University, Cornell University, University of Mississippi, University of Michigan, Arizona State University, New York University, Stanford University, Tufts University, University of Texas at Arlington, and numerous others.
  • Teaching American History Grant Reviewer, Department of Education.
  • Consulting Editor, Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007, Adam Matthew Publications
  • Book Prize Committee, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
  • Program Committee, Organization of American Historians

Last Updated: November 19, 2024

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