Claudio Saunt (born 1967) is a professor, author, and historian of early America, the U.S. South, and Native American studies.

Saunt is also Co-Director of the Center for Virtual History and Associate Director of the Institute of Native American Studies.

[7] As the co-founder and co-director of the Center for Virtual History, Saunt leads initiatives focused on the intersection of research, emerging technologies, and the public.

[9] In Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory (2020), Saunt provides a multilayered account of the expulsions of Native Americans from their homes in the eastern United States to territories west of the Mississippi, under the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which was signed into law by U.S. president Andrew Jackson.

[12] Saunt is also the creator of "The Invasion of America", an interactive map that documents every Native American land cession between the founding of the Republic and the 1880s, with links to corresponding treaties and executive orders.