Draft:Kathleen DuVal

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Kathleen DuVal
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Historian, academic, and author
Parent	John DuVal
Academic background
Education	B.A., History Ph.D., U.S. History
Alma mater	Stanford University University of California, Davis
Academic work
Institutions	University of North Carolina

Kathleen DuVal is an American historian, academic, and author. She is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

DuVal's work is focused on early American history. She is the author of the books Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution and Native Nations: A Millennium in North America, which won the 2025 Bancroft Prize for outstanding works in American history and diplomacy.

DuVal is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship as well as an elected fellow of the Society of American Historians and the American Antiquarian Society.

Education

DuVal completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Stanford University in 1992. In 2001, she completed her Ph.D. in U.S. History from the University of California, Davis.

Career

DuVal began her academic career in 2001 by joining the University of Pennsylvania as a visiting assistant professor and served until 2003. In the same year, she joined the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she served as assistant professor from 2003 to 2009, and associate professor from 2009 to 2015. As of 2015, she has been professor of history.

Research and work

DuVal has written on American history, particularly focusing on the interactions among Africans, Europeans, and Native Americans, on the borderlands of North America.

DuVal's early American history research has focused on the political, economic, and social factors that shaped the early American colonies and the formation of the United States as a nation. Her book The Native Ground offers an understanding of the complex history of interactions between Native Americans and Europeans. The book received generally positive reviews. Mark A. Nicholas called the book a "work of immense significance" and Joshua Piker wrote that the book "offers both a timely rebuttal to the assumption that compromise is what people seek when they enter into cross-cultural relations and a persuasive reading of the varied strategies Natives used to hold (and even expand) their ground." Joseph Key wrote that DuVal's "argument is more clear and persuasive than most."

The book Interpreting a Continent, Voices from Colonial America, which DuVal co-authored with John DuVal, compiled, translated, and interpreted historical documents, shedding light on the multicultural origins of North America's colonies.

DuVal's book Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution offered a new outlook on the Revolutionary War by narrating the conflict from the perspective of marginalized individuals within colonial society. Academic reviewers praised the book's focus on the Gulf Coast region, moving away from traditional American Revolution histories' exclusive focus on the Thirteen Colonies themselves, while also connecting the region to the broader political and social environment of North America,

Personal life

Her father is the literary translator John DuVal, with whom she edited the anthology Interpreting a Continent. She is married to Martin Smith, a professor of environmental economics at Duke University.

Awards and honors

• 2001–2003 – Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, McNeil Center for Early American Studies
• 2006–2007 – Spray-Randleigh Fellowship, UNC
• 2008–2009 – National Humanities Center Fellowship, National Humanities Center
• 2010–2013 – Abbey Fellowship, College of Arts and Sciences, UNC
• 2011 – Elected member of the American Antiquarian Society
• 2016–2021 – Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor, UNC
• 2018–2019 – Guggenheim Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
• 2024 – Tom Kennedy Endowed Lecture

Bibliography

Books

• The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent (2006) ISBN 9780812239188
• Interpreting a Continent: Voices from Colonial America (2009) ISBN 9780742551831
• Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution (2016) ISBN 9780812981209
• Voices of Freedom (2019) ISBN 978-1-324-04221-1
• Give Me Liberty! (2023) ISBN 978-1-324-04087-3
• Native Nations: A Millennium in North America (2024) ISBN 9780525511038

Selected articles

• DuVal, K. (2001). The Education of Fernando de Leyba: Quapaws and Spaniards on the Border of Empires. The Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 60(1), 1–29.
• DuVal, K. (2006). Debating identity, sovereignty, and civilization: the Arkansas Valley after the Louisiana Purchase. Journal of the Early Republic, 26(1), 25–58.
• DuVal, K. (2007). Cross-cultural crime and osage justice in the western Mississippi valley, 1700–1826. Ethnohistory, 54(4), 697–722.
• DuVal, K. (2008). Indian intermarriage and métissage in colonial Louisiana. The William and Mary Quarterly, 65(2), 267–304.
• DuVal, K. (2014). Independence for Whom?: Expansion and Conflict in the South and Southwest. In The World of the Revolutionary American Republic (pp. 97–115). Routledge.

External links

Kathleen DuVal publications indexed by Google Scholar

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