Ned Blackhawk
Professor of History and of American Studies
Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone) is a Professor of History and American Studies at Yale and was on the faculty from 1999 to 2009 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. A graduate of McGill University, he holds graduate degrees in History from UCLA and the University of Washington and is the author of Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the early American West (Harvard, 2006), a study of the American Great Basin that garnered half a dozen professional prizes, including the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize from the Organization of American Historians.
In addition to serving in professional associations and on the editorial boards of American Quarterly and Ethnohistory, Professor Blackhawk has led the establishment of two fellowships, one for American Indian Students to attend the Western History Association’s annual conference, the other for doctoral students working on American Indian Studies dissertations at Yale named after Henry Roe Cloud (Winnebago, Class of 1910). He is also active in The Yale Group for the Study of Native America (YGSNA), an interdisciplinary working group interested in topics relating to Native America.
Current Projects: The Rediscovery of America: American Indians and the Unmaking of U.S. History (Advanced Contract: Yale University Press, 2021)
Co-editor, with Ben Kiernan, Benjamin Madley, and Rebe Taylor, The Cambridge World History of Genocide (in 3 Vols. Cambridge University Press) Vol. II: Genocide in the Early Modern, Indigenous, and Imperial Worlds, from c.1535 to World War One (2021)