Rate My Professor Jeffers Lennox

Jeffers Lennox is Professor of History at Wesleyan University, where he joined the faculty in 2012. A historian of early North America with a specific focus on interactions between British, French, and Indigenous peoples, his research explores Indigenous spaces, imperial fictions, competition for territory in Northeastern North America from 1690 to 1763, and the influence of British provinces on the American Revolution from 1774 to 1815. Lennox completed his Ph.D. in History at Dalhousie University in 2010, with a dissertation titled L’Acadie Trouvée: Mapping, Geographic Knowledge, and Imagining Northeastern North America, 1710-1763. He earned his M.A. from Dalhousie University in 2005 and his Honours B.A. from the University of Toronto in 2005. Before arriving at Wesleyan, he held a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship and a President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of British Columbia from 2010 to 2012.

Lennox is the author of Homelands and Empires: Indigenous Spaces, Imperial Fictions, and Competition for Territory in Northeastern North America, 1690-1763 (University of Toronto Press, 2017), which received the Canadian Historical Association Clio Award for the best book in Atlantic History, a shortlist for the Best Book in Canadian History Prize, and the North American Society for Oceanic History John Lyman Book Award for Canadian and Atlantic Maritime History, all in 2018. His second monograph, North of America: Loyalists, Indigenous Nations, and the Making of the United States (Yale University Press, 2022), examines Revolution-era dynamics north of the United States. Notable articles include 'A Time and a Place: The Geography of British, French, and Aboriginal Interactions in Early Nova Scotia, 1727-1744' (William and Mary Quarterly, 2015), 'Nova Scotia Lost and Found: The Acadian Boundary Negotiation and Imperial Envisioning, 1750-1755' (Acadiensis, 2011), and 'An Empire on Paper: The Founding of Halifax and Conceptions of Imperial Space, 1744-1755' (Canadian Historical Review, 2007). He co-authored Historical Dictionary of the Early Republic with Richard Buel Jr. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016). Lennox has delivered papers at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Canadian Historical Association meetings, and other venues on topics including the Quebec Act and imperial cartography. He serves as co-president of the Wesleyan AAUP chapter and previously chaired the History Department Honours Committee.