David P. Dewar

Assistant Professor of History

Office: A 110G
Phone: (325) 942-2592
E-mail: David.Dewar@angelo.edu

Ph.D., University of Kansas
M.A., Northeastern Illinois University
B.S., Northern Illinois University

Areas of Specialization:
Colonial and Early National America
Trans-Appalachian West
The early fur trade

Scholarship: Dewar is preparing the manuscript for a biography of George Morgan, an eighteenth-century fur trader and cultural broker. He has published two book chapters, “The Edge of Empire: Frontier Settlement in the Late Colonial World,” in John Grigg, ed., Colonial America, Perspectives on American Social History Series. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, Inc., forthcoming, 2008, and “The Mason Patents: Conflict and Controversy at the Birth of Colonial New Hampshire,” in Louis R. Roper and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, eds. Constructing Early Modern Empires: Proprietary Ventures in the Atlantic World, 1500-1750. Boston and Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2007. He has published a peer-reviewed article entitled “Eighteenth-Century Land Speculation at the Margins of the Anglo-American World,” in History Compass, vol. 4, (2006), Blackwell’s online journal. He also has several encyclopedia articles including “Joint Stock Companies,” and “Prince Edward Island,” in Will Kaufman and Heidi Macpherson, eds., Britain and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History: A Multidisciplinary Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, Inc., 2005.“The Church of England,” “Elizabeth I,” “Headright,” “James I,” “London,” “Lord de la Warr,” “Parliament,” and “Privy Council,” in Peter C. Mancall, ed. Three Worlds Meet. New York: Facts on File, 2003, along with several book reviews.

Teaching: At Angelo State, the University of Kansas, and Washburn University in Topeka, KS, Dewar has taught American History, British History, European History, Western Civilization, and Historiography and Historical Methods.

Professional Organizations: Dewar is a member of the American Historical Association, the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture, the Organization of American Historians, and Phi Alpha Theta, International History Honor Society.