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Stephen J. Hornsby

Director, Canadian-American Center
Professor of Geography and
Canadian Studies

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Contact:
Canadian-American Center
The University of Maine
154 College Ave. Orono, ME 04473
Hornsby@maine.edu

Stephen Hornsby
 




Maps
from Stephen J. Hornsby
, British Atlantic, American Frontier: Spaces of Power in Early Modern British America  (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2005).

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Education

Ph.D. University of British Columbia 1986
M.A. Honours, University of St. Andrews 1979

Research Areas
Historical Geography
Expansion of Europe overseas
Eastern Canada and northeastern United States

Current Research and Writing
Historical Atlas of Maine

"Geographies of the British Atlantic World" for Elizabeth Mancke, John G. Reid, and Huw Bowen (eds.), British Asia and the British Atlantic, 1500-1820: Two Worlds or One?

Surveyors of Empire: Samuel Holland, J.F.W.
DesBarres, and the Making of the Atlantic Neptune


Courses Taught
GEO 201: Introduction to Human Geography
(Fall 2008 )
GEO 250: Early Modern North America in Atlantic
Perspective (Fall 2007 )
GEO 425: Historical Geography of Maine
(Spring 2009 )

Recent and Forthcoming Publications
"European Settlement and Power in the Northwest Atlantic" in Graeme Wynn (ed.), Settler Colonialism in Canada.

Co-editor with Richard Judd, Historical Atlas of Maine (forthcoming, 2008).

Co-editor with John G. Reid, New England and the Maritime Provinces: Connections and Comparisons (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005).

British Atlantic, American Frontier: Spaces of Power in Early Modern British America (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2005).

Awards and Honors
Regional History Certificate of Merit (Atlantic Canada),
1993, Canadian Historical Association for
Nineteenth-Century Cape Breton


Commonwealth Scholarship 1979-1984


   
 


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