Claudio Saunt | |
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 Saunt in 2020 | |
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| Education | Columbia University (BA) Duke University (MA, PhD) |
| Occupation | historian |
Claudio Saunt (born 1967) is a professor, author, and historian of early America, the U.S. South, and Native American studies.[1] Saunt is the prize-winning author of Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory (2020),[2] West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776 (2014), Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family (2005), A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733–1816 (1999). Saunt received his Ph.D. in Early America from Duke University in 1996 and presently works as a Richard B. Russell Professor in American History at the University of Georgia, Athens. Saunt is also Co-Director of the Center for Virtual History and Associate Director of the Institute of Native American Studies.[3] He was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2022. [4]
- ^ "Claudio Saunt." Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2015. Retrieved vie Gale In Context: Biography database, 30 May 2020.
- ^ 2020 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
- ^ "University of Georgia". Archived from the original on 12 May 2014. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
- ^ "Announcing the 2022 Guggenheim Fellows"Guggenheim Foundation, April 7,2022.