Daniel Karl Richter (born October 15, 1954) is an American historian specializing in early American history, especially

colonial North America The colonial history of the United States covers the history of European colonization of North America from the early 17th century until the incorporation of the Thirteen Colonies into the United States after the Revolutionary War. In the ...

and

Native American history The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the inhabitants of the Americas before the arrival of the European settlers in the 15th century, and the ethnic groups who now identify themselves with those peoples. Many Indigenous peoples of the Am ...

before 1800. He is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History at the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

and the Richard S. Dunn Director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. His book ''

Facing East from Indian Country ''Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America'' is a work of Native American history by historian Daniel K. Richter that investigates the settlement of North America by Europeans from the perspective of American Indians. ...

'' was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2002.

Life and career

Daniel Karl Richter was born on October 15, 1954, in

Erie, Pennsylvania Erie (; ) is a city on the south shore of Lake Erie and the county seat of Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States. Erie is the fifth largest city in Pennsylvania and the largest city in Northwestern Pennsylvania with a population of 94,831 ...

. He earned his

Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is ...

from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

in 1984. Before coming to the University of Pennsylvania, Richter taught at the

College of William & Mary The College of William & Mary (officially The College of William and Mary in Virginia, abbreviated as William & Mary, W&M) is a public research university in Williamsburg, Virginia. Founded in 1693 by letters patent issued by King William I ...

and Dickinson College.

Awards

* 1993 Ray Allen Billington Award, Organization of American Historians, for ''The Ordeal of the Longhouse'' * 1993 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians, for ''The Ordeal of the Longhouse'' * 1994 Choice Outstanding Academic Book, for ''The Ordeal of the Longhouse'' * 2001–02 Louis Gottschalk Prize in Eighteenth-Century History, for ''Facing East from Indian Country'' * 2002 Pulitzer Prize finalist for ''Facing East from Indian Country''

Works

*''The Lords Proprietors: Feudal Dreams in English America, 1660-1689'', under contract with Harvard University Press. *
Trade, Land, Power: The Struggle for Eastern North America
' (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013). . * '' Before the Revolution: America’s Ancient Pasts'' (Harvard University Press, 2011; paperback 2013). . *
Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America
' (Harvard University Press, 2001; paperback 2003). . *
The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization
' (University of North Carolina Press, 1992). . * ''Friends and Enemies in Penn’s Woods: Colonists, Indians, and the Racial Construction of Pennsylvania'', co-editor with William Pencak (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004). . * ''Beyond the Covenant Chain: The Iroquois and Their Neighbors in Indian North America, 1600-1800'', co-editor with James H. Merrell (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003). .

References

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