Rate My Professor Colin Calloway

Colin G. Calloway is the John Kimball, Jr. 1943 Professor of History and Professor of Native American Studies at Dartmouth College. He earned his B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Leeds in England, receiving his Ph.D. in 1978. After relocating to the United States, he taught high school English in Springfield, Vermont, served for two years as associate director and editor of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian at the Newberry Library in Chicago, and taught for seven years at the University of Wyoming. Calloway joined Dartmouth as a visiting professor in 1990 and became a permanent member of the faculty in 1995. He chaired the Native American Studies Program from 1997 to 2009, served as president of the American Society for Ethnohistory in 2007-2008, and received the American Indian History Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011 for advancing the study of American Indian history and helping Native American students.

Calloway specializes in Native American history and Indian-white relations in early America. He has authored more than a dozen books, including The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Peoples, and the Birth of the Nation (2018), which received the George Washington Prize in 2019; The Victory with No Name: The Native American Defeat of the First American Army (2015); Pen and Ink Witchcraft: Treaties and Treaty Making in American Indian History (2013); The Indian History of an American Institution: Native Americans and Dartmouth (2010); White People, Indians, and Highlanders: Tribal People and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America (2008); The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America (2006); One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark (2003); Crown and Calumet: British-Indian Relations, 1783-1815 (1997); New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Re-making of Early America (1996, second edition 2013); and First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History (multiple editions, 1999-2019). In 2024, he was awarded the Elizabeth Howland Hand–Otis Norton Pierce Award as an outstanding teacher of undergraduates. His current project is The Scots-Irish Invasion of Indian Country.