Virginia DeJohn Anderson is an American historian. She is professor of history at the University of Colorado Boulder and the author of three books: New England's Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 1991), [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America (Oxford University Press, 2004), [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] and The Martyr and the Traitor: Nathan Hale, Moses Dunbar, and the American Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2017). [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21]
Anderson earned a BA summa cum laude from the University of Connecticut and then, on a Marshall Scholarship, an MA from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. [22] She earned an AM and PhD from Harvard University. [22]