Ned Blackhawk
Associate Professor

eMail: ncblackhawk@wisc.edu
Phone: (608)263-2394
Office: 5115 Mosse Humanities
Mailbox: 5020 Mosse Humanities

Website:
AISP Webpage
Violence Over Land (Book)

Curriculum Vitae: View PDF

Office Hours: On Leave

Education: PhD: University of Washington; MA: University of California - Los Angeles; BA: McGill University

Bio Sketch:

My specializations are North American Indian History, Culture, and Identity from U.S. Colonial to 21st Century; Race and Multiculturalism; Comparative Colonialisms

My Research and Teaching Interests include American Indian history, U.S.West, Spanish Borderlands, Comparative Colonialism, and Race and Violence.

Selected Publications:

• Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West (Harvard University Press, 2006; reprint 2007; paperback 2008)
• Between Empires: American Indians in the West during the Age of Empire, Guest Editor, Special Issue, Ethnohistory, Volume 54, Number 4, Fall 2007 (5 compiled articles, introduction, and guest commentary)
  
• “The Displacement of Violence: Ute Diplomacy and the Making of New Mexico’s Eighteenth-Century Northern Borderlands,” in Between Empires: Indians in the American West during the Age of Empire, Special Issue of Ethnohistory 54:4 (Fall 2007), 723-755.
• “Native American Reversal of Fortune: American Indian Colonialism and Its Aftermath,” Review Essay of Charles Wilkinson, Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2005) and Paige Raibmon, Authentic Indians: Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth Century Northwest Coast (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005), American Quarterly (Spring 2007)
• “Recasting the Narrative of America: the Rewards and Challenges of Teaching American Indian History,” The Journal of American History, Textbooks and Teaching Forum, March 2007: 1165-1170.
• Julian Steward and the Politics of Representations: A Critique of Anthropologist Julian Steward's Ethnographic Portrayals of the American Indians of the Great Basin," American Indian Culture and Research Journal 21: 2 (July, 1997): 61-80.
  

Courses Taught:

Lecture Courses:

• History 101 - American History of the Civil War Era - Syllabus 2008 (pdf)
• History 490 - American Indian History - Syllabus 2007 (pdf)
• History 516 - Indians & Spanish Borderlands - Syllabus 2007 (pdf)
• History 546 - Writing Tribal Histories - Syllabus 2008 (pdf)

Undergraduate Seminars:

• History 600 - Advanced Seminar in History

Graduate Courses:

• History 901 - Studies in American History
• History 941 - Indians & Empires