Assistant Professor of History

B.A. (1992) Université François Rabelais, Tours, France

M.A. (1993) Université François Rabelais, Tours, France

Diplôme d'Études Approfondies (1994) Université François Rabelais, Tours, France

Ph.D. (2002) Tulane University

 

Guillaume.Aubert@williams.edu

Stetson H19

413.597.2529

 

Office Hours

Wed. 10:00-12:00 and by appointment

 

Courses

HIST 152: "New Worlds for All": European-Indian Encounters in Colonial North America

HIST 252A: British Colonial America and the United States to 1877

HIST 254: North American Indian History: Pre-Contact to the Present

HIST 354: The Making of the American Revolution

HIST 392: Comparative Slavery: The Origins and Development of North American and Caribbean Slavery

HIST 468: Sex and Race in Colonial North America

 

Research

Concepts of "Race" in the early modern Atlantic world, Comparative Slavery, European-Indian encounters in colonial North America.

"Français, Nègres et Sauvages": Constructing Race in the French Atlantic World, 1600-1770 (book manuscript under review)

 

Thesis Students

Scott Grinsell '04: "Slavery in the Peculiar North: Constructions of Race in Narragansett, Rhode Island 1675-1776" - winner of the Bostert Prize and Scott Prize in History

Robert I. Quay '04: "Mohawks, Model Ts, and Monuments: The Formulation of an Unlikely Regional Identity in Western Massachusetts" (American Studies) - winner of the Brown Prize in American Studies and the Turner Prize in History

 

Selected Publications

Articles and Essays:

'"The Blood of France': Race and Purity of Blood in the French Atlantic World," William and Mary Quarterly 61 (July 2004): 439-478.

"Coureurs de bois" and "Louisiana," in Bill Marshall, ed., France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History (ABC-CLIO, forthcoming).