Jay Gitlin
Jay Gitlin teaches history at Yale University. He is the author of The Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns, French Traders, and American Expansion and co-author of Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past. Gitlin received the Alf Andrew Heggoy Prize for the best book in French colonial history from the French Colonial Historical Society and the Howard R. Lamar Faculty Award from Yale. His articles have appeared in the Oxford History of the American West and The Louisiana Purchase and the Emergence of the American Empire. He currently lives in North Branford, Connecticut.