Andrew Lipman

Andrew Lipman

Associate Professor of History

Department

History

Office Hours

Milstein 802 / Office Hours: Th 3-5pm

Contact

Andrew Lipman joined the Barnard faculty in 2015 after five years teaching at Syracuse University. His research interests include the Atlantic World, Early America, Native Americans, violence, technology, and the environment. His first book, The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast, won the 2016 Bancroft Prize in American History. His second book, Squanto: A Native Odyssey, was released in 2024.

Lipman’s work has appeared in The Cambridge History of America and the World, Common-place, Early American Studies, Reviews in American History, and The William and Mary Quarterly and he’s contributed to Slate and TIME. His research has been supported by the American Philosophical Society, The Huntington Library, The International Seminar in the History of the Atlantic World at Harvard, the John Carter Brown Library, Mystic Seaport Museum, and the New-York Historical Society. Lipman is an elected member of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Historical Society, and the Society of American Historians.

At Barnard, Lipman teaches a variety of courses, including “Introduction to American History to 1865,” “Early America to 1763,” “Revolutionary America, 1763-1815,” “Colonial Gotham: The History of New York City, 1609-1776,” and “A History of Violence: Force and Power in Early America.” He has also led graduate seminars at Columbia on Early American History and Native American History. 

  • B.A. (hons) in History, Vassar College, 2001 
  • M.St. (hons) in Modern History, Oxford University, 2003 
  • Ph.D. in History, University of Pennsylvania, 2010 

Squanto: A Native Odyssey. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2024.

“Maritime Borderlands,” in Paul Mapp, Eliga Gould, and Carla Pestana, eds., The Cambridge History of America and the World, Volume 1 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021): 60-79.

“No More Middle Grounds?” Reviews in American History 44.1 (March 2016): 24-30.

The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015.

“Buying and Selling Staten Island: The Curious Case of the 1670 Deed to Aquehonga Manacknong,” Common-Place: The Interactive Journal of Early America 15.2 (Winter 2015).

“Murder on the Saltwater Frontier: The Death of John Oldham,” Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 9.2 (May 2011): 268-294.

“‘A meanes to knitt them togeather’: The Exchange of Body Parts in the Pequot War,” The William and Mary Quarterly 65.1 (January 2008): 3-28. 

Elected Member, Society of American Historians, 2024

Elected Member, Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2019

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Huntington Library, 2017-2018    

Elected Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 2016

Bancroft Prize in American History, 2016

Finalist for the New England Society Book Award, 2016

Honorable Mention for the PROSE Award in U.S. History, 2016

Mellon Foundation Fellowship, New-York Historical Society, 2012-2013

Franklin Grant, American Philosophical Society, 2012

Short-Term Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library, 2012

Travel Grant, Harvard Atlantic Seminar, 2011

Short-Term Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2011

Appleby-Mosher Research Grant, Syracuse University, 2011

School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2009

Cochran Travel Grant, University of Pennsylvania, 2008

Benjamin Franklin Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2004-2009

First-Class Honours, University of Oxford, 2003

Travel Grant, History Faculty, University of Oxford, 2002-2003

Maguire Fellowship for Graduate Study, Vassar College, 2002-2003

Revell Carr Fellowship, Williams-Mystic Program, 2001

Sophia Chen Zen History Thesis Prize, Vassar College, 2001

Clyde and Sally Griffen American History Prize, Vassar College, 2001

General and Departmental Honors, Vassar College, 2001