Kathleen DuVal | |
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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 |
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. [1]
DuVal is most known for her work on early American history and is the author of the book Independence Lost:Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution. [2] Her work revolves around Native Europeans,Americans,and Africans on the borderlands of North America and has been featured in newspapers including The New York Times [3] and Wall Street Journal. [4]
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. [5]
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. [1]
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,Chapel Hill where she held multiple appointments,including serving as assistant professor from 2003 to 2009,and associate professor from 2009 to 2015. As of 2015,she has been holding an appointment as a professor of history. [6]
DuVal has authored numerous articles spanning the areas of early American history,particularly focusing on the interactions among Africans,Europeans,and Native Americans,on the borderlands of North America. [7]
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. [8] While reviewing the book,Daniel H. Usner said "Kathleen DuVal has produced an ambitious study of a neglected region in early American history,but the significance of her analysis transcends the Arkansas Valley and will influence scholars working in other areas of American Indian and colonial American history". He further commended her efforts in comprehensively mapping out the interconnections between various regions and drawing pertinent analogies,ranging from the Northeast to Mexico,while also placing paramount importance on the portrayal of Indian-to-Indian relations in the narrative. The book Interpreting a Continent,Voices from Colonial America,which she co-authored with John DuVal,compiled,translated,and interpreted a range of historical documents,shedding light on the multicultural origins of North America's colonies. [9] While addressing the problem of verticality in colonial American voices,her work focused on the translations of sources from early North America by individuals including John Smith and Pontiac,suggesting that translating historical documents requires a dual approach,where translators must navigate through both time and language differences. [10] In her review of the book West of the Revolution:An Uncommon History of 1776 by Claudio Saunt,she called for a broader comprehension of American history that incorporated the histories of diverse groups of people and locations and highlighted that the prevalent focus on British colonies in early American history failed to account for the experiences of other peoples and regions. [11]
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. While reviewing this book,American Author Woody Holton,praised its well-supported and convincing narrative,emphasizing the author's efforts in utilizing eight representative characters to portray the varied experiences of diverse contributors to the Gulf Coast gumbo and highlighting lesser-known facets of the American Revolution and drawing attention to the significant roles played by marginalized groups. [3]
Her father is the literary translator John DuVal,with whom she edited the anthology Interpreting a Continent. [12]
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