Andrew Lipman
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Andrew Lipman is a historian of Early America and the Atlantic world who joined the Barnard faculty in 2015 after five years at Syracuse University. His first book, The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast (Yale, 2015), won the Bancroft Prize in American History. His follow-up, Squanto: A Native Odyssey (Yale, 2024), won four prizes, including the PROSE Award for Biography from the Association of American Publishers. Lipman is also a 2026 recipient of the Dan David Prize. Presently, he is editing and contributing to a collection of essays titled The Edges of Early America (under contract with Penn).
Lipman’s scholarship 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. 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. Since 2024, he has served as the latter organization's Executive Secretary.
As a longtime supporter of public history, Lipman has consulted on exhibits and grant applications for the Brookyn Children’s Museum, Museum of the City of New York, New-York Historical Society, Plimoth Patuxet Museums, Smithsonian Museum of American History, and Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian in New York City. His other public-facing work includes reviewing scripts and serving as a talking head for television productions on The History Channel, The Learning Channel, PBS, and WNYE-TV/New York Public Media; his writing has appeared in popular outlets including Martha’s Vineyard Magazine, Slate and TIME; and he teaches in the 92nd Street Y’s Roundtable Program.
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.
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Winner of the PROSE Award in Biography, Winner of the Early American Literature Book Prize, Winner of the New York State Society of Colonial Wars Distinguished Book Award, Winner of the New England Society Book Award in Historical Nonfiction, Honorable Mention for John R. Lyman Book Award in Maritime Biography.
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Named one of the "Best Native Studies Books of 2024" by the Tribal College Journal.
“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 in Nonfiction, 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.
Dan David Prize, Dan David Foundation, 2026
Early American Literature Book Prize, EAL/Society of Early Americanists, 2024
PROSE Award in Biography, Association of American Publishers, 2024
New York State Society of Colonial Wars Distinguished Book Award, 2024
New England Society Book Award in Historical Nonfiction, 2024
Honorable Mention, John R. Lyman Book Award in Maritime Biography, 2024
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, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2016
Bancroft Prize in American History, 2016
Finalist, New England Society Book Award in Historical Nonfiction, 2016
Honorable Mention, PROSE Award in U.S. History, 2016
Andrew W. 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
Travel Grant, History Faculty, University of Oxford, 2002-2003
Maguire Fellowship for Graduate Study, Vassar College, 2002-2003
Revell Carr Research Fellowship, Williams-Mystic Program, 2001
Sophia Chen Zen History Thesis Prize, Vassar College, 2001
Clyde and Sally Griffen American History Prize, Vassar College, 2001