Neal Salisbury

Neal Salisbury was an American historian and university professor. He specialized in Native American history.

Biography

Neal Salisbury was born in 1940 in Los Angeles. He was married to Dana Wallach Salisbury and had one daughter.

Education

He completed his bachelor's and master's degree from UCLA. He studied under Gary Nash who convinced him to become a historian.

Career

He served as the Barbara Richmond 1940 Professor Emeritus in the Social Sciences at Smith College from 1973 to 2014.

Death

Salisbury died on May 27, 2022.

Awards

He has been awarded fellowships by the Smithsonian Institution, the Newberry Library, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Charles Warren Center at Harvard, the National Humanities Center, the American Antiquarian Society, and the American Council of Learned Societies.
He was also named an honorary member of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts and was the Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the American Antiquarian Society.