Daniel K. Richter
Daniel K. Richter is an American historian specializing in early American history, especially colonial North America and Native American history before 1800. He serves as Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania and is the Richard S. Dunn Director of the . His book, Facing East from Indian Country was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2002.Life and career
Richter was born in Erie, Pennsylvania. He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1984. Before teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, Richter had previously taught at Dickinson College and the University of East Anglia.Awards
- 2002 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Facing East from Indian Country
- 2001–02 Louis Gottschalk Prize in Eighteenth-Century History, for Facing East from Indian Country
- 1994 Choice Outstanding Academic Book, for The Ordeal of the Longhouse
- 1993 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians, for The Ordeal of the Longhouse
- 1993 Ray Allen Billington Award, Organization of American Historians, for The Ordeal of the Longhouse
Works
- The Lords Proprietors: Feudal Dreams in English America, 1660-1689, under contract with Harvard University Press.
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- Before the Revolution: America’s Ancient Pasts..
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- Friends and Enemies in Penn’s Woods: Colonists, Indians, and the Racial Construction of Pennsylvania, co-editor with William Pencak..
- Beyond the Covenant Chain: The Iroquois and Their Neighbors in Indian North America, 1600-1800, co-editor with James H. Merrell..
