Karen Ordahl Kupperman
Karen Ordahl Kupperman is an American historian specializing in colonial history within the Atlantic world during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Born in North Dakota, she moved frequently throughout her childhood.
She pursued her passion for history at the University of Missouri before earning a prestigious Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, which led her to Harvard University, where she received her MA in 1962.
She continued her academic journey at the University of Cambridge, completing her PhD there.
Her expertise focuses on the complex interactions between European colonists and Indigenous peoples during the early colonial period.
