Cameron L. Kline

Cameron L. Kline is a Ph.D. candidate in History at Syracuse University, with advanced degrees from Oxford University’s St. Cross College and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

A published author and former Adjunct Professor at Jefferson University, Kline was the first scholar to comprehensively annotate the Tobias Lear Journal (Dec. 10, 1799 – July 4, 1801) detailing the death of George Washington and Lear’s diplomatic mission to St. Domingue—now housed at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

His dissertation challenges the traditional timelines of the American Revolution by tracing its roots to the contested frontier of the 1750s. Focusing on the Albany Plan of Union and the geopolitical struggles of the Ohio and Susquehanna Valleys, his research highlights how land disputes, Indigenous diplomacy, and non-elite actors shaped colonial governance. Through an interdisciplinary lens, Kline is arguing that colonial leaders allowed union to fail, while Haudenosaunee diplomacy played a decisive, but often overlooked, role in the making of a revolution.