Alan Gallay

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 (as a Mellon Faculty Fellow) and 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 The 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

• twice National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships
• 2003 Bancroft Prize

Works

• Colonial and Revolutionary America| Prentice Hall 2010 | isbn=978-0-205-80969-1
• "Forgotten Story of Indian Slavery", Race and History, 2003

External links

• "Review of Books: The Indian Slave Trade, The William and Mary Quarterly, July 2003