Frank D. Lewis

Emeritus Professor

Contact Information

Department of Economics
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario
Canada, K7L 3N6

Phone: (613) 533-2290

E-mail: lewisf@econ.queensu.ca

Personal Information

I received my B.A. at McGill and my M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Rochester. I was on the faculty at Queen's from 1972 to 2016. I also was a visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia (1977-78, 1986), Stanford (1979-80), Australian National University (1987), Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1994 and 2004), University of Colorado, Boulder (2011), and the National Bureau of Economic Research (2012). My research has been in the area of Economic History, focusing mainly but not exclusively on Canada. Ann Carlos and I have written extensively on aboriginal history. (see attached Curriculum Vitae [pdf])

Recent Publications

• "Native-European Interactions in North America and the Trade in Furs." In The World of Colonial America, Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, ed. (New York: Routledge, 2017), pp.339-54 (with Ann Carlos).
• "Transatlantic Wage Gaps and the Migration Decision: Europe-Canada in the 1920s." Cliometrica 11 (2017): 153-82 (with Alex Armstrong).
• "Native American, Exchange, and the Role of Gift-Giving." In Unlocking the Wealth of Indian Nations, Terry Anderson, ed. (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2016), pp. 30-60 (with Ann Carlos).
• "More than Profits? The Contribution of the Slave Trade to the Dutch Economy: Assessing Fatah-Black and van Rossum." Slavery and Abolition 37 (2016): 724-35 (with David Eltis and Pieter Emmer).
• "Protecting Infant Industries: Canadian Manufacturing and the National Policy, 1870-1913." Explorations in Economic History 56 (2015): 15-31 (with Richard Harris and Ian Keay).
• "Native Americans and Exchange: Strategies and Interactions before 1800." In The Cambridge History of Capitalism, Volume I, The Rise of Capitalism, Larry Neal and Jeffrey Williansom, eds. (Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp. 455-90 (with Ann Carlos).
• "Smallpox and Native American Mortality: The 1780s Epidemic in the Hudson Bay Region." Explorations in Economic History 49 (2012): 277-90 (with Ann Carlos).
• "International Migration with Capital Constraints: Interpreting Migration from the Netherlands to Canada in the 1920s." Canadian Journal of Economics 45 (2012): 732-54 (with Alex Armstrong).

• Also

  Commerce by a Frozen Sea: Native Americans and the European Fur Trade (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010) (with Ann Carlos).

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