Kathleen DuVal is a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and the author of Native Nations: A Millennium in North America, which won the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize, the Mark Lynton History Prize, and the Cundill History Prize. Her other works include Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution, The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent, the documents reader Interpreting a Continent: Voices from Early America, and the U.S. history textbook Give Me Liberty!

DuVal has published in the William and Mary Quarterly, the Journal of the Early Republic, The Atlantic, Time magazine, and The New York Times, and she is a regular book reviewer for The Wall Street Journal.