James Lewis Axtell

Background

Axtell, James Lewis was born on December 20, 1941 in Endicott, New York, United States. Son of Arthur James Axtell and Laura (England) Levinsky.

Education

Bachelor, Yale University, 1963; Doctor of Philosophy, U. Cambridge, England, 1967.

Career

Assistant professor, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1966-1972; associate professor, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, 1972-1975; visiting professor, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1977-1978; professor, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, since 1978; William R. Kenan Junior professor of humanities, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, since 1986.

Achievements

• James Lewis Axtell has been listed as a noteworthy History educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • The European and the Indian: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America

    (Studies the interaction between white settlers and native...)

Membership

Member Society American Historians, American Society for Ethnohistory (president 1988-1989), The Champlain Society, American History Association, Organisation American Historians, Colonial Society Massachusetts, Pilgrim Society, Massachusetts History Society.

Interests

• Avocations: book collecting, track. E-mail: [email protected].

Connections

Married Susan Carol Hallas, August 31, 1963. Children: Nathaniel Harsen, Jeremy England.

Father:

Arthur James Axtell Levinsky

Mother:

Laura (England) Levinsky

Spouse:

Susan Carol Hallas

child:

Jeremy England Axtell

child:

Nathaniel Harsen Axtell