Jay Gitlin
Lecturer
Associate Director of Howard R. Lamar Center on the Study of Frontiers and Borders
Office: DC N12, WCH B04 (Lamar Center)
Phone: (203) 432-0553, 432-2328 (Lamar Center)
Email: jay.gitlin@yale.edu
Jay Gitlin received his BA and PhD at Yale. His work focuses on the history of the French in the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes. His book The Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns in Mid-America and the Course of Westward Expansion, 1763 to 1863, will be published in 2004 by Yale University Press. He has published numerous articles and contributed chapters to the Oxford History of the American West (Oxford, 1994) and The Louisiana Purchase and the Emergence of the American Empire (Congressional Quarterly, 2003). He is also co-editor and co-author of Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past (W.W. Norton, 1992).
Gitlin teaches courses on American Indian history, the history of the American West, Canadian history, and the suburbanization of America.
