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Guillaume Aubert

Assistant Professor of History

B.A. (1992) Université François Rabelais, Tours, France
M.A. (1993) Université François Rabelais, Tours, France
Diplôme d'Études Approfondies (1994) Université François Rabelais, Tours, France
Ph.D. (2002) Tulane University

Contact
Guillaume.Aubert@williams.edu
On Leave 2009-2010


Courses Taught
HIST 152: "New Worlds for All": European-Indian Encounters in Colonial North America
HIST 252A: British Colonial America and the United States to 1877
HIST 254: North American Indian History: Pre-Contact to the Present
HIST 354: The Making of the American Revolution
HIST 392: Comparative Slavery: The Origins and Development of North American and Caribbean Slavery
HIST 468: Sex and Race in Colonial North America
 
Research Interests
Concepts of "Race" in the early modern Atlantic world, Comparative Slavery, European-Indian encounters in colonial North America.
François Nasgres et Sauvages": Constructing Race in the French Atlantic World, 1600-1770 (book manuscript under review)

Theses Advised
Scott Grinsell '04 - Slavery in the Peculiar North: Constructions of Race in Narragansett, Rhode Island 1675-1776 - winner of the Bostert Prize and Scott Prize in History
Robert I. Quay '04 - Mohawks, Model Ts, and Monuments: The Formulation of an Unlikely Regional Identity in Western Massachusetts (American Studies) - winner of the Brown Prize in American Studies and the Turner Prize in History
Emily George '09 - Piety, Religion, and Morality: Church, State, and the Constitutional Process in Massachusetts
Jeremy Goldstein '09 - Equally Entitled? Transatlantic Tensions and the Crisis Over Representation in Eighteenth-Century North America

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