The editor of two volumes dealing with issues of gender, race and ethnicity in the maritime world, he also co-wrote Fishing Out of Stonington: Voices of the Stonington Fishing Fleet (2003) and authored the award-winning The Rockets’ Red Glare: Connecticut and the War of 1812 (2012). The winner of Williams Colleges’ Nelson Bushnell Prize for teaching excellence (2017), Gordinier also co-directed six back-to-back NEH Summer Institutes for college and university faculty.