{{Short description|American historian (born 1957)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Alan Gallay | image = | caption = | birth_date = 1957 | birth_place = | education = | occupation = Historian | notable_works = ''The Indian Slave Trade: the Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717'' | awards = | website = }}

'''Alan Gallay''' is an American historian. He specializes in the Atlantic World and Early American history, including issues of slavery. He won the Bancroft Prize in 2003 for his ''The Indian Slave Trade: the Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717.''

==Life== He graduated from University of Florida, and earned an M.A. and Ph.D. from Georgetown University.

Gallay has taught at the University of Notre Dame, University of Mississippi, Western Washington University, Harvard University and the University of Auckland, as a Fulbright Lecturer. He previously held the Warner R. Woodring Chair in Atlantic World and Early American History, and was Director of The Center for Historical Research at Ohio State University<!--Wikipedians do not use "The" as part of Ohio State's name; it is considered a marketing gimmick, and routinely deleted.-->.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://history.osu.edu/people/person.cfm?ID=1920 |title=OSU Department of History |access-date=2009-12-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100402032509/http://history.osu.edu/people/person.cfm?ID=1920 |archive-date=2010-04-02 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Twice he taught for the American Heritage Association in London.

He currently<ref>{{cite news|last1=Morris|first1=Kendall|title=Former Bancroft Prize winner hired as TCU history professor|url=https://www.tcu360.com/story/16070former-bancroft-prize-winner-hired-tcu-history-professor/|accessdate=31 July 2016|publisher=tcu360.com|date=16 October 2012}}</ref> holds the Lyndon B. Johnson Chair of U.S. History at Texas Christian University.

==Awards== * Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellow in the Humanities, Harvard University 1990-1991 * J. William Fulbright Lecturer in Colonial American History, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand 1992 * National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars 1990–1991, 1997-1998 * 2003 Bancroft Prize<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Bancroft Prizes: Previous Awards {{!}} Columbia University Libraries |url=https://library.columbia.edu/about/awards/bancroft/previous_awards.html |access-date=2023-09-14 |website=library.columbia.edu}}</ref> * 2004 Washington State Book Award

==Works== * {{cite book| title=The Formation of a Planter Elite: Jonathan Bryan and the Southern Colonial Frontier | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SUbFFTHCQdYC| publisher= University of Georgia Press| year= 2007| isbn= 978-0-8203-3018-1 }} * {{cite book| title=Voices of the Old South: Eyewitness Accounts, 1528-1861| url=https://archive.org/details/voicesofoldsouth00gall| url-access=registration| quote=Alan Gallay.| publisher= University of Georgia Press| year= 1994| isbn= 978-0-8203-1566-9 | editor= Alan Gallay }} * {{cite book|title=The Colonial Wars of North America, 1512-1763: An Encyclopedia|editor=Alan Gallay|publisher=Routledge|year=2020|isbn=978-1138891098|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/colonialwarsofno0000unse}} * {{cite book| title=The Indian Slave Trade: the Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WwYJXj6PdbAC| publisher= Yale University Press| year= 2003| isbn= 978-0-300-10193-5 }} * {{cite book| title=Indian Slavery in Colonial America| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HT69BbA3Is8C| publisher= University of Nebraska Press| year= 2010 | isbn=978-0-8032-2200-7 }} * ''Colonial and Revolutionary America'', Prentice Hall 2010, {{ISBN|978-0-205-80969-1}} * [http://www.raceandhistory.com/cgi-bin/forum/webbbs_config.pl/noframes/read/1362 "Forgotten Story of Indian Slavery", ''Race and History'', 2003] *''Walter Ralegh:&nbsp; Architect of Empire''. &nbsp;Basic Books, 2019. {{ISBN|978-1541645790 }} *"Defining the European Frontier City in Early Modern Asia:&nbsp; Goa, Macau, and Manila," in ''Frontier Cities: Encounters at the Crossroads of Empire'', eds., Jay Gitlin ''et al''. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. *{{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/mastersslavesinh00bole| url-access=registration| page=[https://archive.org/details/mastersslavesinh00bole/page/19 19]| quote=Alan Gallay.| chapter=Planters and Slaves in the Great Awakening| title=Masters & Slaves in the House of the Lord: Race and Religion in the American South, 1740-1870 | editor= John B. Boles | publisher= University Press of Kentucky| year= 1988| isbn= 978-0-8131-0187-3 }}

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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20101025133657/http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/wm/60.3/br_8.html "Review of Books: ''The Indian Slave Trade'', ''The William and Mary Quarterly'', July 2003]

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