Camilla Townsend
Historian of Indigenous Americas
Camilla Townsend is an American historian at Rutgers University who studies the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. She wrote Fifth Sun.
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American Born 1965 in New York City, United States
About Camilla Townsend
Townsend is a New York City native who lives in New Jersey. She is a Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University, where she earned her Ph.D. Her scholarship covers the Aztecs and the Nahuas, Nahuatl-language historical writing, and Algonkian-speaking groups such as the Powhatan and the Lenape. She is also a keen student of languages. In 2020, Fifth Sun received the Cundill History Prize. Her other books include Malintzin's Choices and Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma.