- Ned Blackhawk
-
Ned Blackhawk (b. ca. 1970) is a Te-Moak tribe, Western Shoshone American historian currently on the faculty of Yale University.[1] In 2007 he received the Frederick Jackson Turner Award for his second major book, Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empire in the Early American West (2006).
Contents
Life
Blackhawk grew up as an "urban Indian" in Detroit, Michigan.[2] He is of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada. He graduated from McGill University in 1992. He earned his Ph.D. in history in 1999 from the University of Washington.
He first taught American Indian Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[3]
In the fall of 2009, Blackhawk joined the faculty of Yale University, where he is affiliated with the History and American Studies departments. He is one of two professors who are American Indian.[2]
He is on the Managing Board of the American Quarterly, the journal of the American Studies Association.[4]
Awards
- 2007 Frederick Jackson Turner Award for his Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empire in the Early American West
- 1996–1997 Katrin H. Lamon Resident Scholar [5]
Works
- Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empire in the Early American West. Harvard University Press. 2006; reprint 2008. ISBN 9780674027206. http://books.google.com/books?id=thfpaacrRzgC&dq=Ned+Blackhawk&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=32JVPqm9gJ&sig=Ma90nkPZyl1cKlIDiH_KgA94JPo&hl=en&ei=WJrxSsjgBJC4MOfg6IcO&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CBsQ6AEwBTgU#v=onepage&q=&f=false.
- The Shoshone. Austin, TX: Raintree Steck-Vaughn. 2000. ISBN 0817254684.- for young adults
- Violence Over the Land: Colonial Encounters in the American Great Basin, University of Washington, 1999
References
- ^ Internet Public Library
- ^ a b Liane Membis (September 23, 2009). "Number of American Indian profs doubles — from one to two". Yale Daily News. http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2009/09/23/number-american-indian-profs-doubles-one-two/.
- ^ "Ned Blackhawk", Faculty, University of Wisconsin-Wisconsin
- ^ "Ned Blackhawk". American Quarterly
- ^ "Ned Blackhawk: Resident Scholar Lamon Fellowship"
External links
- "Ned Blackhawk Interview", The Progressive, 2007, podcast Template:File not found
- J. Kehaulani Kauanui, "Interview with Ned Blackhawk", Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond, original podcast 19 March 2007, posted Apr 05, 2009
- Spady, James O'Neil (2009) "Reconsidering Empire: Current Interpretations of Native American Agency during Colonization" (review), Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Vol. 10, No. 2
This article about an Indigenous person of North America is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.