Kathleen Duval’s “Unexpected” wins 2024 Cundill History Prize

Kathleen DuVal has been announced as the 2024 winner of the USD$75,000 Cundill History Prize for Native Nations: A Millennium in North America at a prestigious gala in Montreal, where the prize is administered by McGill University.

The 2024 jurors awarded DuVal, a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for her “sweeping” 1,000-year history of North America from the rise of ancient cities to the present day, which entirely reframes our understanding of the period with Indigenous power and sovereignty at its center.