Claudio Saunt is a professor, author, and historian of early America, the U.S. South, and Native American studies. Saunt is the prize-winning author of Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory (2020), West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776 (2014), Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family (2005), A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733–1816 (1999). Saunt received his Ph.D. in Early America from Duke University in 1996 and presently works as a Richard B. Russell Professor in American History at the University of Georgia, Athens. Saunt is also Co-Director of the Center for Virtual History and Associate Director of the Institute of Native American Studies. He was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2022.

Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
2020
ISBN 9780393609851
A New Order of Things
1999
ISBN 9780521669436
Black, White, and Indian
2005
ISBN 9780198039181
West of the Revolution
2014
ISBN 9780393244304