James Merrell

James Merrell
Born
James Hart Merrell

1953 (age 70–71)
EducationLawrence University
Johns Hopkins University (PhD)
OccupationHistorian
AwardsFrederick Jackson Turner Award (1990)
Merle Curti Award (1990)
Bancroft Prize (1990, 2000)

James Hart Merrell (born 1953 in Minnesota) is a Lucy Maynard Salmon Professor of History Emeritus at Vassar College. Merrell is primarily a scholar of early American history, and has written extensively on Native American history during the colonial era. He is one of only five historians to be awarded the Bancroft Prize twice.[1]

  1. ^ "James H. Merrell, PhD - Faculty - Vassar College". www.vassar.edu. Retrieved 2023-12-02.