Jeffers Lennox, Ph.D.
Jeffers Lennox is a historian of early North America, with a specific focus on the history of interactions between British, French, and Indigenous peoples. He is an Assistant Professor of History at Wesleyan University. His first book, Homelands & Empires: Indigenous Spaces, Imperial Fictions, and Competition for Territory in Northeastern North America, 1690-1763 (University of Toronto Press, 2017) explores how the Wabanaki peoples, French settlers, and British colonists used borders, land use, and the language of geography to control territory in what is now Nova Scotia / New Brunswick / Northern Maine. In a region without a sovereign power, Indigenous peoples defended their homelands against the imperial designs of European powers by refusing to surrender their geographic identity.