Kathleen DuVal

Assistant Professor & Assistant Department Chair of History (3291); Adjunct Associate Professor of American Studies (3226); Academic Advising(3120)

466 Hamilton Hall
Campus Box 3195
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3195
919-962-5545 (phone)
duval@email.unc.edu

B.A., Stanford University, 1992
Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 2001

Research Interests

Kathleen DuVal's research focuses on early America, particularly cross-cultural relations on North American borderlands. Her book The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent (University of Pennsylvania, 2006) argues that, in the middle of the continent, Indians rather than Europeans were more often able to determine the form and content of their relations. Her second book is Interpreting a Continent: Voices from Colonial America (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009). Co-edited with her father, the literary scholar and translator John DuVal, this book is a collection of primary sources showing the diversity of colonial America. DuVal is currently writing a book on the American Revolution on the Gulf Coast titled Independence Lost, under contract with Random House.

Courses Offered (as schedules allow)

For current course listings, consult the Directory of Classes.

• HIST 110 (Also AMST)  Native North America
• HIST 127  United States History to 1865
• HIST 395  Cultural Identities in Colonial North America
• HIST 490  Race in Early America
• HIST 561  The American Colonial Experience
• HIST 564  Revolution and Nation-Making in America, 1763–1815
• HIST 574  Spanish Borderlands in North America
• HIST 691&692  Honors in History
• HIST 831  Readings in Early American History

Graduate Students Advised by Kathleen DuVal

• Brooke Bauer
• Elizabeth Ellis
• Jonathan Hancock
• Warren Milteer
• Katy Simpson Smith