Gavin Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in the History Department at Concordia University. He studies in colonial North America, specializing in aboriginal-settler relations and the origins of treaty-making in New England, New France and New Netherlands. Taylor received his Ph.D. from the College of William and Mary, and has also worked as a journalist. He is currently writing a textbook for Oxford University Press provisionally titled Two Roads to Heaven: A History of Native-Settler Relations in North America. He has taught a broad range of courses in North American history, as well as on subjects related to public history and the politics of the past.
Education
B.A. Carleton University (Ottawa), M.A. University of Toronto, Ph.D. College of William and Mary
Courses
2016/17
HIST 303/1 Section AA
Native American History since 1800
HISW 251/2 Section XX
History of the United States to the Civil War Era
HIST 381/2 Section A
History and Public Policy: The Politics of the Past
HIST 354/4 Section A
Revolutionary America
HISW 253/4 Section XX
History of the United States since the Civil War Era
Courses taught
Hist 203: History of Canada, Pre-Confederation
Hist 251: United States before the Civil War Era
Hist 253: United States since the Civil War Era
Hist 302: Natives and Newcomers
Hist 303: Native American History since 1800
Hist 306: History and the Public
Hist 353: Colonial America
Hist 354: Revolutionary America
Hist 381: History and Public Policy (The Politics of the Past)
Hist 396: United States History since 1945
Hist 397: Sound and History
Hist 402: The Philosophy and Practice of History
Hist 452: The American Landscape
Hist 498: Law and Empire
Hist 498: Witches, Shamans, Vampires and Zombies
