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Education
BA Stanford University, 1992
PhD University of California, Davis, 2001
Research Interests
Kathleen DuVal’s research focuses on early America, particularly how various Native American, European, and African women and men interacted from the sixteenth through early nineteenth centuries.
Some Notable Publications
- Native Nations: A Millennium in North America (forthcoming, Random House, April 2024)
- Give Me Liberty!, 7th edition, co-authored with Eric Foner and Lisa McGirr (Norton, 2022)
- Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution (Random House, 2015)
- Interpreting a Continent: Voices from Colonial America, co-edited with John DuVal (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009)
- The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent (Early American Studies Series, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006)
- “Indian Intermarriage and Métissage in Colonial Louisiana,” William and Mary Quarterly 65 (April 2008), 267–304
- “Cross-Cultural Crime and Osage Justice in the Western Mississippi Valley,” Ethnohistory (Fall 2007), 697–722
- “Debating Identity, Sovereignty, and Civilization: The Arkansas Valley after the Louisiana Purchase,” Journal of the Early Republic (Spring 2006), 25–59
Graduate Students
- This faculty member is not accepting applicants for the 2023-2024 cycle
- Skye Brenner (Co-Advised with Katherine Turk)
- Nicholas Sifford (Co-Advised with Antwain Hunter)
- Frankie Bauer (Co-Advised with Daniel Cobb)
Courses Taught (as schedule allows)
For current information about course offerings, click here.
- HIST/AMST 110—Native North America
- HIST 124–U.S. History Through Film
- HIST 127—History of the United States to 1865
- HIST 355—American Women’s History to 1865
- HIST 237—The American Colonial Experience (previously HIST 561)
- HIST 238—Revolution and Nation-Making in America, 1763-1815 (previously HIST 564)
- HIST 398—Cultural Encounters in Early America
- HIST 691—Honors in History
- HIST 692—Honors in History
- HIST 726—Readings in Early American History