Daniel K. Richter

Daniel K. Richter (born October 15, 1954 in Erie , Pennsylvania ) is an American historian . His research focus is on the history of North America . He looks at the colonial era and the time of the American Revolution . Another research focus is the history of the Native Americans .

Life

Richter attended Thomas More College , where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1976 . He then continued his studies at Columbia University , where he received a Master of Arts in History in 1977 , a Master of Philosophy in History in 1979 , and a Ph.D. in 1984. got in history.

Richter taught from 1982 to 1983 as an instructor in the Department of History at Millersville State College in Millersville , Pennsylvania. From 1983 to 1985 he was an Assistant Professor of History at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg , Virginia . He then taught at Dickinson College in Carlisle , Pennsylvania. First from 1985 to 1991 as Assistant Professor of History, then from 1991 to 1997 as Associate Professor of History and American Studies and finally from 1997 to 1999 as Professor of History and American Studies. From 1992 to 1993 he was also a Fulbright Exchange Lecturer at the University of East Anglia in Norwich , England . In 1999 he moved to the University of Pennsylvania . At the same time, however, remained a Distinguished Scholar at the Archives and Special Collections Department of Dickinson College from 1999 to 2000 . At the University of Pennsylvania, he was Professor of History from 1999 to 2007, Edmund J. and Louis W. Kahn Term Professor of History from 2007 to 2009 , and Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American since 2009 History . He has also been Richard S. Dunn's Director of the University's McNeil Center for Early American Studies since 2000 . In the fall of 2000, he was Visiting Adjunct Professor of History at Columbia University.

Richter was a member of the editorial board of the journal Pennsylvania History from 1986 to 1990 and again from 2005 to 2009 and was Associate Editor at Ethnohistory from 1986 to 1992 . From 1993 to 2007 he was a member of the editorial board of the New York State Historical Association . From 1993 to 2000, he served on the Board of Advisors of the Native Americans of the Northeast: Culture, History, and the Contemporary book series published by the University of Massachusetts Press . From 1999 to 2000 he was editor of the John and Mary's Journal . From 1999 to 2003 he served on the editorial board of the Massachusetts Historical Review . Since 2000 he has been editor of the Early American Studies monograph series at the University of Pennsylvania Press.

His book Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America won the 2002 Louis Gottschalk Award from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies . His book The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization won two awards from the Organization of American Historians in 1993, the Ray Allen Billington Prize and the Frederick Jackson Turner Award .

In 2001 he was elected a corresponding member of the Massachusetts Historical Society . In 2002 he was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society . In 2003 he was elected a member of the Society of American Historians . In 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the New York Academy of History . In 2017 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship .

He is also a member of the American Historical Association , the Association of Caribbean Historians , the Historical Society of Pennsylvania , the Library Company of Philadelphia , the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association , the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture , the Organization of American Historians , the Pennsylvania Historical Association, and the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic .

Richter is married and has two children.

Publications (selection)

• with James H. Merrell (Ed.): Beyond the Covenant Chain: The Iroquois and Their Neighbors in Indian North America, 1600–1800 (1987, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press)
• The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization (1992, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press)
• Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America (2001, Cambridge: Harvard University Press )
• with William Pencak (Ed.): Friends and Enemies in Penn's Woods: Colonists, Indians, and the Racial Construction of Pennsylvania (2004, Pennsylvania State University Press)
• Before the Revolution: America's Ancient Pasts (2011, Harvard University Press)
• Trade, Land, Power: The Struggle for Eastern North America (2013, University of Pennsylvania Press)

Web links

• Curriculum Vitae on the website of the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2017 Fellows - United States and Canada. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, accessed May 1, 2017 .