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Kathleen DuVal is a Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her field of expertise is early American history, particularly interactions among Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans on the borderlands of North America. Her books include Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Native Nations: A Millennium in North America.

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DuVal’s awards include the Guggenheim Fellowship in the Humanities, a National Humanities Center Fellowship, a postdoctoral fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, the 2008 best article in the William and Mary Quarterly, the best article in southern women’s history from the Southern Association for Women Historians, and book prizes from the Journal of the American Revolution and the Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South. Most recently, Native Nations won the Pulitzer, Bancroft, Cundill, and Mark Lynton history prizes. She is an Elected Fellow of the American Antiquarian Society and the Society of American Historians.

For speaking engagements, please contact Emily Lawrence at the Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau.

Visit Kathleen DuVal’s official website at the History Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill here.