Kathleen DuVal

Kathleen DuVal is an American historian, professor, and author specializing in early American and Native American history. She is a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Hailing from Fayetteville, Arkansas, she earned a B.A. from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis. Her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “Native Nations: A Millennium in North America” (2024), chronicles Indigenous history over a thousand years, earning the Bancroft Prize, the Cundill History Prize, and the Mark Lynton History Prize.

DuVal's other works include “Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution” (2015), which explores the voices of marginalized individuals during the Revolutionary War, and “The Native Ground” (2006), which focuses on Native-European interactions. A Guggenheim Fellow in 2018 and elected fellow of the American Antiquarian Society, she has published in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

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