Andrew Lipman
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Andrew Lipman joined the Barnard faculty in 2015 after five years teaching at Syracuse University. His research interests include the Atlantic World, Early America, Native Americans, violence, technology, and the environment. His first book, The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast, won the 2016 Bancroft Prize in American History. His second book, Squanto: A Native Odyssey, was released in 2024.
Lipman’s work has appeared in The Cambridge History of America and the World, Common-place, Early American Studies, Reviews in American History, and The William and Mary Quarterly and he’s contributed to Slate and TIME. His research has been supported by the American Philosophical Society, The Huntington Library, The International Seminar in the History of the Atlantic World at Harvard, the John Carter Brown Library, Mystic Seaport Museum, and the New-York Historical Society. Lipman is an elected member of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Historical Society, and the Society of American Historians.
At Barnard, Lipman teaches a variety of courses, including “Introduction to American History to 1865,” “Early America to 1763,” “Revolutionary America, 1763-1815,” “Colonial Gotham: The History of New York City, 1609-1776,” and “A History of Violence: Force and Power in Early America.” He has also led graduate seminars at Columbia on Early American History and Native American History.
- B.A. (hons) in History, Vassar College, 2001
- M.St. (hons) in Modern History, Oxford University, 2003
- Ph.D. in History, University of Pennsylvania, 2010
Squanto: A Native Odyssey. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2024.
“Maritime Borderlands,” in Paul Mapp, Eliga Gould, and Carla Pestana, eds., The Cambridge History of America and the World, Volume 1 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021): 60-79.
“No More Middle Grounds?” Reviews in American History 44.1 (March 2016): 24-30.
The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015.
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Winner of the Bancroft Prize in American History, Finalist for the New England Society Book Award, Honorable Mention for the PROSE Award in U.S. History.
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Excerpted as “Masters of the Atlantic: The Forgotten Contest Between Colonists and Seafaring Indians For Control of the American Coast,” Slate Magazine, November 24, 2015.
“Buying and Selling Staten Island: The Curious Case of the 1670 Deed to Aquehonga Manacknong,” Common-Place: The Interactive Journal of Early America 15.2 (Winter 2015).
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Republished as “A Hard Bargain: Native Americans Sold Staten Island Under Duress—But Not Before New York Made Surprising Concessions,” Slate Magazine, April 28, 2015.
“Murder on the Saltwater Frontier: The Death of John Oldham,” Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 9.2 (May 2011): 268-294.
“‘A meanes to knitt them togeather’: The Exchange of Body Parts in the Pequot War,” The William and Mary Quarterly 65.1 (January 2008): 3-28.
PROSE Award in Biography, Association of American Publishers, 2025
Distinguished Book Award, Society for Colonial Wars, 2025
Elected Member, Society of American Historians, 2024
Elected Member, Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2019
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Huntington Library, 2017-2018
Elected Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 2016
Bancroft Prize in American History, 2016
Finalist for the New England Society Book Award, 2016
Honorable Mention for the PROSE Award in U.S. History, 2016
Mellon Foundation Fellowship, New-York Historical Society, 2012-2013
Franklin Grant, American Philosophical Society, 2012
Short-Term Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library, 2012
Travel Grant, Harvard Atlantic Seminar, 2011
Short-Term Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2011
Appleby-Mosher Research Grant, Syracuse University, 2011
School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2009
Cochran Travel Grant, University of Pennsylvania, 2008
Benjamin Franklin Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2004-2009
First-Class Honours, University of Oxford, 2003
Travel Grant, History Faculty, University of Oxford, 2002-2003
Maguire Fellowship for Graduate Study, Vassar College, 2002-2003
Revell Carr Fellowship, Williams-Mystic Program, 2001
Sophia Chen Zen History Thesis Prize, Vassar College, 2001
Clyde and Sally Griffen American History Prize, Vassar College, 2001
General and Departmental Honors, Vassar College, 2001