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 first major book, Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empire in the Early American West (2006) which also received the Robert M. Utley Prize in 2007.[2][3]

Life

Blackhawk grew up as an "urban Indian" in Detroit, Michigan.[4] 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.[3]

He first taught American Indian Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison[5] where he was on the faculty from 1999 to 2009.[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 Yale professors who are American Indian.[4]

Blackhawk served till 2011 on the Managing Board of the American Quarterly, the journal of the American Studies Association.[6] In 2012 Blackhawk joined the Advisory Board of the International Museum for Family History.

Awards

Works
  • Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empire in the Early American West. Harvard University Press. 2008 [2006]. ISBN 978-0-674-02720-6.
  • The Shoshone. Austin, TX: Raintree Steck-Vaughn. 2000. ISBN 0-8172-5468-4.- for young adults
  • Violence Over the Land: Colonial Encounters in the American Great Basin, University of Washington, 1999

References
  1. Internet Public Library
  2. "Robert M. Utley Award". The Western History Association. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  3. "Ned Blackhawk". Yale University Department of History. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
  4. Membis, Liane (September 23, 2009). "Number of American Indian profs doubles — from one to two". Yale Daily News.
  5. "Ned Blackhawk", Faculty, University of Wisconsin-Wisconsin
  6. "Ned Blackhawk". American Quarterly. Archived from the original on September 29, 2011.
  7. "Ned Blackhawk: Resident Scholar Lamon Fellowship"


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