About the Contributor: Kathleen DuVal

Kathleen DuVal

Kathleen DuVal is a professor in the history department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she also hold appointments in the American Studies department and the research labs of archaeology. She earned her PhD in history from the University of California, Davis, in 2001 and held a Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania’s McNeil Center for Early American Studies before joining the faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill. DuVal’s research focuses on early America. She is the author of Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution (Random House, 2015) and The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006). DuVal is the co-editor of Interpreting a Continent: Voices from Colonial America (Rowman and Littlefield, 2009). She has published in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, William and Mary Quarterly, Ethnohistory, Journal of the Early Republic, and Early American Studies. She has won prizes for the best book on the American Revolution from the Journal of the American Revolution and the best article in the William and Mary Quarterly, as well as many fellowships. She has appeared on The Diane Rehm Show, The State of Things, and documentaries on the American Heroes Channel.