Wayne Lee

Ph.D. Duke University, 1999

Research Interests

I specialize in early modern military history, with a particular focus on North America and the Atlantic World, but I teach military history from a full global perspective at the undergraduate and graduate level.

I also teach courses on violence as well as on the early English exploration of the Atlantic. As a kind of additional career, I work with archaeology projects, am finishing up my work on a regional project in the mountains of northern Albania, and starting a new project in southern Greece.  For more details on my research see the link to my web page below.

Major Publications

• Barbarians and Brothers:  Atrocity and Restraint in Anglo-American Warfare, 1500-1865 (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

• Crowds and Soldiers in Revolutionary North Carolina: The Culture of Violence in Riot and War (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001).

• "Fortify, Fight, or Flee: Tuscarora and Cherokee Defensive Warfare and Military Culture Adaptation," Journal of Military History 68 (2004): 713-770.

• "Mind and Matter--Cultural Analysis in American Military History: A Look at the State of the Field," Journal of American History 93.4 (2007): 1116-42.

• "Peace Chiefs and Blood Revenge: Patterns of Restraint in Native American Warfare in the Contact and Colonial Eras," Journal of Military History 71 (2007):  701-41.

• "The Pylos Regional Archaeological Project IV: Change and the Human Landscape in a Modern Greek Village in Messenia," Hesperia 70 (2001), 49-98. Available through JSTOR

• "Early American Ways of War: A New Reconaissance, 1600-1815" The Historical Journal 44 (2001), 269-89.

• Associate Editor for Peter Karsten, et al., eds., Encyclopedia of War and American Society, 3 vols. (New York: Sage Publications, 2005).

Graduate Students Currently Advised by Wayne Lee

• Wynne Beers
• Mary Chopas
• Rachel Levandoski
• Margaret Martin
• Dwight Mears
• Ryan Peeks
• John Roche
• Thomas Sheppard

Courses Offered (as schedules allow)

For current course listings, consult the Directory of Classes.

• HIST 292H  Early English Exploration and Colonization
• HIST 351  Global History of Warfare
• PWAD 350  National and International Security

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