Karen Ordahl Kupperman

Karen Ordahl Kupperman (born 23 April 1939) is an American historian who specializes in colonial history in the Atlantic world of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.^[1]

Biography

Karen Ordahl Kupperman was born in

She studied History at the University of Missouri, graduating in 1961 with a BA. She was also a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. She obtained a Woodrow Wilson fellowship and studied at Harvard University, earning an MA in 1962.^[2]

Karen Kupperman married Joel J. Kupperman, professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut. They have two children, Michael Kupperman and Charlie Anders Kupperman. While the children were young, Kupperman taught at the University of Connecticut. She moved to the University of Cambridge for two years with her family, earning a PhD in 1978. She then taught at the University of Connecticut until 1995. She was a Mellon Faculty Fellow at Harvard University from 1980 to 1981. In 1995 she became a professor of history at New York University.^[2]

Kupperman has been a fellow of the

Kupperman's focus has been on contacts and ventures in the Atlantic world in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and on the interactions between the participants.[3] Kupperman’s Apathy and Death in Early Jamestown won the Binkley-Stephenson Award of the

Her 2007 interpretation of the settlement of early Virginia, The Jamestown Project, argues that the activity of the Virginia Company and the establishment of Jamestown, Virginia must be viewed within the broader context of English expansionary efforts, and that the structure of a functional colony was evolved through trial and error. A reviewer said she merged these ideas well, and produced an engaging and accessible work.^[5]

Bibliography

• Kupperman, Karen Ordahl (1980). Settling with the Indians: the meeting of English and Indian cultures in America, 1580-1640. Rowman and Littlefield. p. 224.
  ISBN 978-0-8476-6210-4
  . Retrieved 2012-09-13.
• Karen Ordahl (ed.) Kupperman (1995-02-20). America in European Consciousness, 1493-1750. UNC Press Books. p. 428.
  ISBN 978-0-8078-4510-3
  . Retrieved 2012-09-13.
• Kupperman, Karen Ordahl (1995-06-30). Providence Island, 1630-1641: The Other Puritan Colony. Cambridge University Press. p. 393.
  ISBN 978-0-521-55835-8
  . Retrieved 2012-09-13.
• Kupperman, Karen Ordahl (2000). Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America. Cornell University Press. p. 297.
  ISBN 978-0-8014-8282-3
  . Retrieved 2012-09-13.
• Kupperman, Karen Ordahl (2007). Roanoke: The Abandoned Colony. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 191.
  ISBN 978-0-7425-5263-0
  . Retrieved 2012-09-13.
• Kupperman, Karen Ordahl (2008-10-15). The Jamestown Project. Harvard University Press. p. 390.
  ISBN 978-0-674-03056-5
  . Retrieved 2012-09-13.
• Andrews, Charles M.; Kupperman, Karen Ordahl (2009-06-30). Our Earliest Colonial Settlements: Their Diversities of Origin and Later Characteristics. Cornell University Press. p. 179.
  ISBN 978-0-8014-7544-3
  . Retrieved 2012-09-13.
• Ligon, Richard; Kupperman, Karen Ordahl (2011-09-30). A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados. Hackett Publishing. p. 201.
  ISBN 978-1-60384-620-2
  . Retrieved 2012-09-13.
• Kupperman, Karen Ordahl (2012-01-01). Major Problems in American Colonial History: Documents and Essays. Cengage Learning. p. 467.
  ISBN 978-0-495-91299-6
  . Retrieved 2012-09-13.
• Kupperman, Karen Ordahl (2012-08-23). The Atlantic in World History. Oxford University Press. p. 144.
  ISBN 978-0-19-533809-6
  . Retrieved 2012-09-13.

Sources

Further reading

• "INTERVIEW WITH KAREN ORDAHL KUPPERMAN". PBS. 2003. Retrieved 2012-09-13.