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James Carson

About

Principal fields for graduate supervision: History of First Nations of North America, Colonial Encounters, North American Multiculturalism, Atlantic World

Selected Publications

Publications

“Language Tells Another Story: When Tobacco Is cistemaw and the Cree Are nêhiyaw,” British Journal of Canadian Studies 36 (1, 2024): 51-72,

“Re-Thinking the Bachelor of Arts for the 21st-Century Precariat,” Studies in Higher Education 47 (7, 2022):1447-1487,  )

“Inventing a Past: Molly Brant’s Life in Leadership,” History Now 59 (Spring 2021)

“Decolonisation and Reconciliation in the Australian Anthropocene,” Journal of Australian Studies 45 (2021): 4-17,

 â€œMapping Native North America,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), )

“Algae and Oxygen, Humans and Carbon: A Precambrian Analogue for the Anthropocene,”

Anthropocene Review 6 (2019), 1-5,

“Blueprints of Distress?: Why Quality Assurance Frameworks and Disciplinary Learning Cannot Sustain a 21st-Century Education,” Teaching in Higher Education 24 (2019):1014-1023.

“The Limits of the Colonial Mind: Seeking Reconciliation in the Australian Anthropocene,” Griffith Review 60 (2018),

“Cherokee Ghostings and the Haunted South,” Legacies: Essays on the Indigenous South, eds. Tim Alan Garrison and Greg O’Brien (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2017), 238-264.

“Who Was First?: The Diasporic Implications of Indigeneity,” Between Dispersion and Belonging: Recent Advances in Diaspora Studies, eds. Amitava Chowdhury and Donald H. Akenson (Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016), 111-124.

“Brébeuf Was Never Martyred: Reimagining the Death of Canada’s First Saint,” Canadian Historical Review 97 (June 2016), 222-243.

“Telling about the South: An Autobiography of Antiquity,” Study the South (January 2016), 23 pp.;

“Native Americans and the Atlantic World,” Oxford Bibliographies Online (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, revised 2014).

With Karim M. Tiro, “Animals in Atlantic North America,” The Atlantic World, eds. D’Maris Coffman, Adrian Leonard, and William O’Reilly (London: Routledge, 2014), 13-33.

“Mastering Language: Liberty, Slavery, and Native Resistance in the Nineteenth Century South,” Native Diasporas: Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas, eds. Gregory Smithers and Brooke Newman (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014), 209-234.

“Histories of the ‘Tuscarora War,’” Creating and Contesting Carolina: Proprietary Era Histories, eds. Bradford Wood and Michelle J. LeMaster (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2013), 186-210.

“Choctaw and Chickasaw Women, 1690-1834,” Mississippi Women, vol. 2, eds. Elizabeth Anne Payne, Martha H. Swain, and Marjorie Julia Spruill (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2010), 7-22.

“’The Obituary of Nations’: Ethnic Cleansing, Memory, and the Origins of the Old South,” Southern Cultures 14 (2008): 6-31.

“When is an Ocean not an Ocean?: Geographies of the Atlantic World,” Southern Quarterly 43 (2006): 16-45; repr. in The Past Is Not Dead: Essays from the Southern Quarterly, eds. Douglas Chambers and Kenneth Watson (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2012).                                 

“American Historians and Indians,” The Historical Journal 49 (2006): 1-13.

"Sacred Circles and Dangerous People: Native American Cosmology and the French Settlement of Louisiana," French Colonial Louisiana and the Atlantic World, ed. Bradley Bond (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005), 65-82.

“Teaching Amerindian Autohistory,” American Indian Quarterly 27 (2003): 155-159.

“Greenwood LeFlore: Southern Creole and Choctaw Chief,” Journal of Mississippi History 65 (2003): 255-73; repr. in Exploring New Paths: Essays in Pre-Removal Choctaw History, ed. Greg O’Brien (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008), 221-236.

"'Dollars Never Fail to Melt Their Hearts': Native Women and the Market Revolution," Neither Lady, Nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South, eds. Michele Gillespie and Susanna Delfino (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002), 15-33.

"From Mohawk Woman to Loyalist Chief: The Life of Molly Brant," Sifters: Native American Women's Lives, ed. Theda Perdue (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 48-59.

"Ethnogeography and the Native American Past," Ethnohistory 49 (Fall 2002): 765-784

"’Conquest or Progress!’: Old Questions and New Problems in the Ethnohistory of the Native Southeast," Ethnohistory 47 (2000): 821-834.

"Native Americans, the Market Revolution, and Culture Change: The Choctaw Cattle Economy, 1690-1830," Agricultural History 71 (Winter 1997): 1-18; repr. in Cultural Change and the Market Revolution in America, 1789-1860, ed. Scott Martin (Boston: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005), 71-88; repr. in Pre-Removal Choctaw History: Exploring New Paths, ed. Greg O’Brien (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008), pp.183-199.

"From Corn Mothers to Cotton Spinners: Continuity in Choctaw Women's Economic Life, 950 A.D. to 1830 A.D.," Women of the American South: A Multicultural Reader, eds. Christie Anne Farnham (New York: New York University Press, 1997), 8-25.

"Horses and the Economy and Culture of the Choctaw Indians, 1690-1840," Ethnohistory 42 (1995): 495-513; repr. in Environmental History in the American South: An Anthology, eds. Paul S. Sutter and Christopher J. Manganiello (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009), 61-79.

"State Rights and Indian Removal in Mississippi, 1817-1835," Journal of Mississippi History, 57 (1995): 25-42.

 

 

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