DAVID L. PRESTON, Ph.D. Associate Professor of History Department of History The Citadel (843)-813-2558 (h) (843)-953-5051 (o) [email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D., American History, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., 2002. Dissertation: “The Texture of Contact: European and Indian Settler Communities on the Iroquoian Borderlands, 1700-1780.” Dissertation Advisor: James Axtell, Kenan Professor of Humanities
M.A., American History, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., 1997.
B.A., History, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, Va., (magna cum laude), 1994.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS AND TEACHING EXPERIENCES
2003-present Associate Professor of History, The Citadel, Charleston, S.C. Teaching fields: Colonial North America, the American Revolution, American Indian history, American religious history, world civilizations, U.S. history.
2003-2005 Lead Professor, Department of Education “Teaching American History Grant” for (summers) National Park Service, Williamsburg/James City County School District, and the College of William and Mary.
2002-2003 Visiting Assistant Professor, College of William and Mary and the National Institute of American History and Democracy.
2001-2002 Lewis L. Glucksman Teaching Fellowship, College of William and Mary Awarded by the Department of History; taught an upper-level seminar, entitled History, Memory, and the American Revolution.
2000, 2002 Writing Instructor, History Writing Resources Center, William and Mary
2000 Lecturer, Department of History, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, Va. Taught upper-level class on American Indian History.
1996-2000 Teaching Assistantship, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.
PUBLICATIONS BOOK
The Texture of Contact: European and Indian Settler Communities on the Frontiers of Iroquoia, 1667-1783 (University of Nebraska Press, 2009).
ARTICLES
“‘We intend to live our lifetime together as brothers’: Palatine and Iroquois Communities in the 18th-century Mohawk Valley,” New York History 89, no. 2 (Spring 2009): 179-90.
“‘Make Indians of our White Men’: British Soldiers and Indian Warriors from Braddock’s to Forbes’s Campaigns, 1755-1758,” Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 74 (Summer 2007): 280-306.
“George Klock, the Canajoharie Mohawks, and the Good Ship Sir William Johnson: Land, Legitimacy, and Community in the Eighteenth-Century Mohawk Valley,” New York History: Special Issue on the Seven Years’ War in America 86, no. 4 (Fall 2005): 473-500.
“Pennsylvanians at War: The Settlement Frontiers during the Seven Years’ War,” in Pennsylvania Legacies: A Newsmagazine of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (May 2005), 22-25.
“Squatters, Indians, Proprietary Government, and Land in the Susquehanna Valley,” in Daniel K. Richter and William Pencak, eds., Friends and Enemies in Penn’s Woods: Indians, Colonists, and the Racial Construction of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004), 180-200.
“The Key to Victory: Fighter Command and the Tactical Air Reserves During the Battle of Britain,” Air Power History (Winter 1994): 19-29.
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of David Dixon, Never Come to Peace Again: Pontiac’s Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America (University of Oklahoma Press, 2005), in William and Mary Quarterly 63 (October 2006): 870-72.
Review of Colin Calloway, The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America (Oxford, 2006), in The New-York Journal of American History (2006).
Review of Matthew C. Ward, Breaking the Backcountry: The Seven Years’ War in Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1754-1763 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003), in Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 129 (April 2005): 227-28 ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
Encyclopedia of New York State History, ed. Peter Eisenstadt (Syracuse University Press, 2005) [articles on Sir William Johnson (1715-1774), Joseph Brant (c. 1742-1807), Guy Johnson (c. 1740-1788), and the Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1768)].
Encyclopedia of American Military History, ed. Spencer C. Tucker et. al. (Facts on File, 2004) [articles on New France: Settlement and Organization, Little Turtle [Mishikinakwa], ca. 1748-1805, Blue Licks, Battle of Lake George (1755), and Fort Pitt].
AWARDS AND HONORS
2004-2009 Faculty Research Grants, The Citadel Foundation (grants to support book project on the Iroquois Confederacy and a second book project on the Seven Years’ War and the American Revolution).
2004 Jacob M. Price Visiting Research Fellowship, University of Michigan, William L. Clements Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
2003 New Faculty Research Grant, The Citadel Foundation (grant to support book project on the Iroquois Confederacy).
2002 Fellow, International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 2002.
2000-2001 Fellowship in American Civilization, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York City.
2000 Fellow, Champlain Seminar, "The New England-New France Borderland, 1660- 1760," Canadian Studies Program, University of Vermont.
2000-2001 Samuel Victor Constant Fellowship, General Society of Colonial Wars and the College of William and Mary.
1999-2000 Bicknell Scholarship, National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims.
1999-2000 Research Fellowship, Larry J. Hackman Research Residency Program, New York State Archives, Albany, New York.
1998 Andrew W. Mellon Seminar in Theory and Practice: "History, Culture, and the Postmodern Challenge." College of William and Mary, May-June 1998.
1996-2001 Graduate Assistantship, College of William and Mary.
PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES AND PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS “The Problem of Loyalty in the Postwar British Empire: The Strange Career of Charles Lee.” Paper accepted for conference, “1763 and All That: Temptations of Empire in the British World During the Decade After the Seven Years' War,” Institute for Historical Studies, University of Texas at Austin, February 25-26, 2010.
“‘We Intend to live our lifetime together as brothers,’: The Worlds of European & Iroquois Settlers in the Mohawk Valley.” Western Frontier Symposium: Agents of Change in Colonial New York: Sir William Johnson’s World, New York State Office of Parks, October 2007.
“Imperial Crisis in the Ohio Valley: Indian, Colonial American, and British Military Communities, 1760-1774.” Warfare and Society in Colonial North America and the Caribbean, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Knoxville, Tn., October 2006.
“The Iroquoian Borderlands: A Native-Centered Perspective on Atlantic History,” Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Annual Meeting, Northampton, Massachusetts, June 2004.
“George Klock, the Canajoharie Mohawks, and the Good Ship Sir William Johnson: Land and Legitimacy on the Eighteenth-Century Mohawk Frontier,” Annual Conference on Iroquois Research, Rensellaerville, N.Y., October 2003.
“The Texture of Contact: French-Canadian and Iroquoian Communities on the Iroquoian Borderlands,” American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Meeting, Québec City, Québec, October 2002
“The Trojan Horse of Empire: Imperial Crisis in the Trans-Appalachian West, 1760- 1774,” International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., August 2002
“A Poor Woman's Fight: Women Munitions Workers during the American Civil War,” Conference on Working-Class Studies: Memory, Community, and Activism, Center for Working-Class Studies, Youngstown, Ohio, May 2001.
“Dispossessing the Indians: Proprietors, Settlers, and Cultural Encounters in the Pennsylvania Backcountry, 1730-1755,” Colloquium of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, February 2001.
“Settlers, Indians, and Cultural Encounters: Constructing Narratives About Ordinary Peoples on the Early Pennsylvania Frontier,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Boston, Mass., January 2001.
“‘They will mutually support each other’: Squatters and Indians in the Pennsylvania Backcountry, 1720-1755,” Pennsylvania Historical Association Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pa., November 1999. 2. BY INVITATION
Seminar speaker, “The Iroquois and Fort Niagara,” National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks in American History and Culture Workshop, Niagara University, July 2009.
Seminar speaker, “Grant’s Defeat, 1758: Prelude to Victory in the Forbes Campaign,” Fort Pitt Museum Associates Seminar Series, Pittsburgh, Pa., September 2008.
Symposium speaker, “The Western Frontier: Plantation Society in Colonial New York, 1750-1775,” New York State Office of Parks/Johnson Hall State Historic Site, N.Y., November 2005.
“The Trojan Horse of Empire: Imperial Crisis in the Trans-Appalachian West, 1760- 1774,” Historical Society of Pennsylvania’s Symposium, Exploration, Nation, and Empire, Philadelphia, Pa., April 2003.
National Park Service Round Table on “The Significance of the Fort Stanwix Treaties in American Indian History,” Fort Stanwix National Monument, Rome, N.Y., November 2002.
“Cultural Encounters in Eighteenth-Century New York: Ordinary European and Indian Peoples on the Mohawk Frontier,” Public Lecture sponsored by New York State Council for the Humanities and Old Fort Niagara Association, Youngstown, N.Y., 2001.
COMMENTOR ON PANEL
Commentor, “New Perspectives on Iroquois Diplomacy after the American Revolution,” Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Annual Meeting, Santa Barbara, California, June 2005.
SERVICE TO THE COLLEGE
STANDING COLLEGE-WIDE COMMITTEES
Faculty Council, 2009-present Employment Committee, 2004-present Chair, Core Curriculum Oversight Committee, 2007-present Communication across the Curriculum (CAC) Committee, 2004-present Chair, Communication across the Curriculum (CAC) Committee, 2006-2007
STANDING DEPARTMENT COMMITTEES AND ASSIGNMENTS
Joint M.A. Graduate Program Committee, 2004-present Faculty Affairs Committee, 2008- Phi Alpha Theta (History Honors Society) Advisor, 2005-2008 History Club Co-Advisor, 2003-2005
AD-HOC DEPARTMENT COMMITTEES
Old South, Tenure-Track Job Search Committee (2008-2009) U.S. Diplomatic history, Tenure-Track Job Search Committee (2007-2008) Middle East/Latin America, Tenure-Track Job Search Committee (2005-2006) Steering committee for Conference on World War II and the South (2008) Treasurer, Society for Military History Conference Annual Meeting (2004-2005) Leadership Studies Minor (participated in planning in 2005) African-American Studies Minor (Open House Planning in 2004)
MASTER’S THESIS ADVISING:
(Director) Jesse Siess, “Declarations of Marital Independence: Runaway Wives in Colonial and Revolutionary South Carolina, 1732-1779” (2008).
(Director) Charles Glenn Bell, “Sedition Shops and Kings’ Men: Examining the Role of the Clergy of South Carolina During the American Revolution” (2007).
(Reader) Timothy D. Fritz, “More than a Footnote: Native American and African American Relations on the Southern Colonial Frontier, 1513-1763” (2008).
(Reader) Jason Farr, “An Errand Into the Backcountry: The Denominational Diplomacy of William Tennent and Oliver Hart's Mission to the South Carolina Backcountry, 1775” (2007).
(Reader) Lance P. Bodrero, “‘A mighty project’: Waterfront Evangelism in Charleston, 1820-1860” (2006).
(Reader) James R. Silvers, “‘These stones cry out’: Gravestones and Death in Charleston, South Carolina, 1700-1830” (2005).
(Reader) Holly A. Presnell, “It is Better to Die Like Warriors: The History and Impact of the Chickamauga Cherokees” (2005).
PUBLIC LECTURES
Invited speaker, “From Charles Towne to Ocmulgee: The Deerskin Trade in Early Carolina,” Friends of the Charles Towne Landing State Park, March 2009.
Invited speaker, “The Siege of Yorktown of 1781,” Sons of the American Revolution, Battle of Eutaw Springs Chapter, January 2007.
Invited speaker, “Hallowed Places: Sites of the War of the 1812,” Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Society of the War of 1812/ English Speaking Union, 2006.
Invited speaker, “The Telephone,” for Fast Forward: Science, Technology, and the Communications Revolution at Charleston County Library, September 2006.
Invited speaker, “The Naval History of the American Revolution,” Sons of the American Revolution, Gen. William Moultrie Chapter, September 7, 2006.
SERVICE TO THE DISCIPLINE
Manuscript referee for the following journals, 2003-2007: William and Mary Quarterly Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography Early American Studies New York History
Advisor/Consultant, Pennsylvania State Historical and Museum Commission, 2004-2005 “Native American History Project,” Explore Pennsylvania History Website, http://www.explorepahistory.com
The Citadel/Berkeley County Teaching American History Grant, 2005-present.
Instructor, National Park Service and the College of William and Mary, “Weaving the Fabric of American History,” Department of Education Teaching American History Grant on Teaching American History With Historic Places, 2003-2005.
Search Committee, Chairs of Teaching Excellence at William and Mary, 2002.
MEMBERSHIPS
American Historical Association American Society for Ethnohistory New York State Historical Association Pennsylvania Historical Association Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania
REFERENCES
James Axtell, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of History, College of William and Mary Michael McGiffert, Editor Emeritus, The William and Mary Quarterly, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture William Pencak, Professor of History, Pennsylvania State University, State College Daniel K. Richter, Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. Carol Sheriff, Associate Professor of History, College of William and Mary James P. Whittenburg, Professor of History, College of William and Mary