James Merrell
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James H. Merrell, the Lucy Maynard Salmon Professor of History at Vassar College, was born and raised in Minnesota. Professor Merrell is one of the leading scholars of early American history, and has written extensively on Native Americans history during the colonial era. Professor Merrell is one of only five historians to be awarded the Bancroft Prize twice.
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[edit] Education
Merrell earned his undergraduate degree at Lawrence University and continued his studies at Oxford University. He receiving his Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University in 1982.
[edit] Career
Merrell was a Fellow at The Newberry Library Center for the History of the American Indian in Chicago and the Institute of Early American History and Culture in Williamsburg, Virginia. He has also received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has been at Vassar since 1984.
[edit] Published Books
- The Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal
- Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier
[edit] Awards
- The Frederick Jackson Turner Award
- The Merle Curti Award from the Organization of American Historians
- The Bancroft Prize (twice)
- Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
