Richard B. Russell Professor of American History - Department of History Regents' Professor Co-Director, Center for Virtual History Claudio Saunt's most recent book is Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory (Norton, 2020). Unworthy Republic was awarded the Bancroft Prize and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. It was recognized by both the Washington Post and Publishers Weekly as one of the ten best books of 2020, by the New York Times as a Critics’ Top Book, and by the Boston Globe as one of the best books of the year. He is also the author of West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776 (WW Norton, 2014), Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family (Oxford UP, 2005) and A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians (Cambridge UP, 1999). Saunt has developed several online projects, including the Invasion of America and, with Elizabeth Fenn, Pox Americana. Awards, Honors and Recognitions Of note: Bancroft Prize, 2021 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, 2021 Finalist, National Book Award, 2020 Shortlisted for the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, 2020 Selected as one of the ten best books of the year by Publishers Weekly, 2020 A New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2020. Selected by the Washington Post as one of the ten best books of 2020. Selected by The Atlantic as one of the fifteen best books of 2020. Shortlisted for the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, 2015 Clements Prize, Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, Best non-fiction book on Southwestern America, 2005 Charles S. Sydnor Award, Southern Historical Association, Best book on Southern history, 2000 Wheeler-Voegelin Award, American Society for Ethnohistory, Best book in ethnohistory, 2000 Green and Ramsdell Award, Southern Historical Association, Best article published in The Journal of Southern History over two-year period, 2004/2005 Research Fellowship, American Philosophical Society, Year-long research grant, 2009 Bolton-Cutter Award, Western History Association, Best Article on Borderlands History, 2009
