CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES

Sarah Chute is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto researching slavery and freedom in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century North America. Her research interests are in transnational free and forced migration, trade, and the connections that Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island had with slavery in other parts of the Atlantic world, including the British Caribbean.

Edward G. Gray was Professor of History at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Gray passed away on December 22, 2023, as this volume was nearing publication. His early work focused on the history of ideas and especially the relationship between language, culture, and politics. Later work carried similar themes from linguistic history into the history of space and cartography with, shortly before his death, a monograph on the Mason-Dixon line. He was a generous and penetrating collaborator, mentor, and scholar. He is sorely missed by the editors and contributors to this volume. We wish to thank Stacey Rutledge for her assistance and permission to publish his essay.

Kim M. Gruenwald is Associate Professor of History at Kent State University. She first became interested in rivers as borders when her research showed how long it took the Northwest Ordinance to act as the boundary between North and South in the Ohio Valley during the early republic.

Rachel B. Herrmann is Senior Lecturer in Modern American History at Cardiff University. A specialist in the history of food, hunger, and cannibalism, she turns her attention now to how people constructed, navigated, and undermined borders in the Gulf South on rivers, bays, coasts, islands, and swamps.

Christian J. Koot is a Professor of History at Towson University. He is a historian of the British Atlantic world interested in the ways that that early modern peoples understood cartographic borders and how they alternatively manipulated them, transversed them, and gave them meaning.

Chad McCutchen is an Associate Professor of History at Minnesota State University, Mankato in Mankato, Minnesota. His research focuses on Spanish colonialism, the Andes, ethnohistory, and the Atlantic world. His current research analyzes the continuity and influence of Indigenous cultures within the development of colonial Latin American society.

Jennifer Monroe McCutchen is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. She specializes in early American history and ethnohistory, with a focus on the themes of gender, power, exchange, and diplomacy. Her current scholarship explores the cultural and political impact of gunpowder among the Muscogee Creek in the late eighteenth-century Southeast.

John Morton has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at Boston College and at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. Currently he is Executive Director of the Paul Revere Museum of Discovery and Innovation in Canton, Massachusetts. He specializes in New England and Atlantic Canada, with a focus on church networks and border formation after the American Revolution.

Paul Musselwhite is Associate Professor of History at Dartmouth College. His research explores the conceptualization of settler colonial places in the early modern Atlantic world.

Charles Prior is Professor in History at the University of Birmingham (UK). He approaches treaties between Native nations and non-Native governments in North America as sites of negotiation over sovereignty, law, constitutionalism, resources, and wider questions of the status and rights of small nations.

Karen Rann is a practicing visual artist with an abiding interest in historical maps. Her scholarly work focuses on the emergence of contours, lines that traverse borders and enabled map-users to do likewise. She received her PhD from Queen’s University Belfast in 2022. Her creative work has received funding from Arts Council England, Creative Scotland, and Arts Council Ireland.

Jessica Choppin Roney is Associate Professor of History at Temple University and Director of the Program in Early American Economy and Society (PEAES) at the Library Company of Philadelphia. Her current work focuses on the trans-Appalachian west and its impact on US constitutional development in the era of US independence.

Samuel Truett is a Professor of History at the University of New Mexico. He is a historian of borderlands and border crossings in North America and the world, with particular expertise in the US-Mexico border region and its Indigenous, cross-border, and environmental contexts.

Harvey Amani Whitfield is the Centennial Carnegie Chair in the History of Slavery in Canada at University of King’s College and Professor of History at Dalhousie University. He is the author of several books and articles about Black enslavement in northeastern North America.

Alex Zukas, Professor of History, Emeritus at National University, is writing a book with the working title, Herman Moll and the Entangled Cartography of the British Empire. His interest in political borders juxtaposes assertions of authority and state power on maps with the malleability and contradictory nature of the reality on the ground.