Peter Way

Born in Belleville, Ontario, he graduated from Trent University in 1981, Queen's University with an M.A. in 1983, and University of Maryland, College Park with a Ph.D., in 1991.

Dr. Way taught at The University of Sussex from 1989 to 2001, and Bowling Green State University, while Department Chair, from 2001 to 2006.[1] He then chaired the History Department at The University of Windsor from 2006 to 2011, where he now teaches.[2]

• 1994 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, for Common Labour: Workers and the Digging of North American Canals, 1760–1860
• 1994 Philip Taft Labor History Book Award for Common Labour by the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University.
• 1994 Binkley-Stephenson Award by the Organization of American Historians for “Evil Humors and Ardent Spirits: The Rough Culture of Canal Construction Laborers,” Journal of American History (March 1993).
• 2001 Harold L. Peterson Award awarded by Eastern National for the best article on American military history given to “Rebellion of the Regulars: Working Soldiers and the Mutiny of 1763-1764,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser., vol. 57, no. 4 (Oct. 2000), 761-92.[3]
• 2007 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Dean’s Special Recognition Award for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity (co-winner), University of Windsor.
• 2013 Established Scholar Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Award, University of Windsor.[4]

• "Soldiers of Misfortune: New England Regulars and the Fall of Oswego, 1755–1756", Massachusetts Historical Review, Vol. 3, 2001
• Peter Way (1993). Common labour: workers and the digging of North American canals, 1780-1860. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-44033-2.
• Martin Daunton; Rick Halpern, eds. (February 1, 1999). "The Cutting Edge of Culture: British Soldiers Encounter Native Americans in the French and Indian War". Empire and Others: British Encounters with Indigenous Peoples, 1600-1850. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-1699-8.