Contributors
- Contributors
Robert Englebert is an associate professor of history at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, where he teaches courses on colonial North America and the fur trade. His research focuses on French-Indigenous relations and he is co-editor of French and Indians in the Heart of North America, 1630-1815 (Michigan State University Press, 2013). He is currently working on a monograph that examines Gabriel Cerré, an eighteenth-century merchant, and an anthology on French cultural mobility in North America.
Andrew K. Frank, the guest editor for this issue, is the Allen Morris Professor of History at Florida State University. He is the author of several books, including Before the Pioneers: Indians, Settlers, Slaves, and the Founding of Miami (University Press of Florida, 2017) and Creeks and Southerners: Biculturalism on the Early American Frontier (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005). He is also the co-editor (with A. Glenn Crothers) of Borderland Narratives: Exploring North America's Contested Spaces, 1500-1850 (University Press of Florida, 2017). Dr. Frank is currently finishing a book on the history of the Florida Seminoles.
Jason Herbert is a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department at the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on the Indigenous and environmental history of colonial Florida. The working title of his dissertation is "'Two Beeves and a Bottle of Brandy': Livestock Husbandry in Indigenous Florida, 1585-1858." He was recipient of a Filson Fellowship and conducted research there in 2016.
Elizabeth Mancke is Professor of History and Canada Research Chair at the University of New Brunswick, Canada. Her research focuses on the impact of European overseas expansion on politics from the local to the global level. She has published several articles on these issues, and most recently with Stephanie Pettigrew, "European Expansion and the Contested North Atlantic" in Terrae Incognitae (January 2018).
Kristofer Ray is a resident scholar at Dartmouth College, editor of the Tennessee Historical Quarterly, and co-editor of the "Indians and Southern History" series with the University of Alabama Press. In addition to book chapters and articles, he is the author of Middle Tennessee, 1775-1825: Progress and Popular Democracy on the Southwestern Frontier (University of Tennnessee Press, 2007) and the forthcoming Cherokees, Europeans, and Empire in the Trans-Appalachian West, 1670-1774 (University of Oklahoma Press).
Honor Sachs is an assistant professor of history at Western Carolina University. She is the author of Home Rule: Households, Manhood, and National Expansion on the Eighteenth-Century Kentucky Frontier (Yale University Press, 2015). [End Page 2]
