Andrew Cayton

Andrew Robert Lee "Drew" Cayton (May 9, 1954 – December 17, 2015) was a scholar of early American history.

Career

Cayton taught at Harvard, Wellesley, Ball State University, and, from 1990 to 2015, at Miami University of Oxford, Ohio. In 2015 he was appointed Warner Woodring Chair in History at the Ohio State University.^[1] He has been the John Adams (Fulbright) Professor of American Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands; a fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation Center at Bellagio, Italy; and a resident fellow at the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies in Monticello, Virginia; and was the 2012–2013 Frank H. Kenan Fellow at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

He has received teaching awards from the Associated Student Government of Miami University, the College of Arts and Science of Miami University, and the Ohio Academy of History, and was a Distinguished Lecturer of the Organization of American Historians.

Cayton received his B.A. in 1976 from the University of Virginia, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa shortly before graduation.^[2] He went on to earn his M.A. and Ph.D. from Brown in 1981, working under the direction of Gordon Wood. Cayton has been called the "premier modern historian of the American Midwest" and is also well known for his work on British North America.^[3] In addition he was interested in Atlantic world history. In 2011–2012, he served as president for the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) and in 2015 as president of the Ohio Academy of History. In 2013 he published Love at the Time of Revolution: Transatlantic Literary Radicalism and Historical Change, 1793–1818. Cayton wrote with Fred Anderson in 2005, The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000. He regularly reviewed books for The New York Times.

He edited, (i) with John Richard Sisson and Christian Zacher in 2007, The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia; (ii) with Stuart D. Hobbs in 2005, The Center of a Great Empire: The Ohio Country in the Early Republic; and (iii) with Susan E. Gray in 2001, The American Midwest: Essays on Regional History.

Family

Cayton was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on May 9, 1954, son of Robert Frank Cayton (1929–2004), a librarian at Marietta College, and Vivian Irene Pelley (maiden; 1929–2014), a high school teacher in the Marietta City School District. Andrew Cayton – on August 23, 1975, in Charlottesville, Virginia – married Mary Alice Kupiec (maiden), a historian. They had two daughters, Elizabeth Renanne Cayton and Hannah Kupiec Cayton.

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