Speaker: Professor Miranda Johnson, University of Otago (New Zealand)
Description: Miranda Johnson is associate professor of History at the University of Otago, where she teaches and researches in areas of decolonization, colonialism, race, rights, settler identity and indigeneity, primarily in the South Pacific but also with comparisons to North America and Southern Africa. Her first book, The Land Is Our History: Law, Indigeneity and the Settler State (Oxford, 2016) won the 2018 W. K. Hancock prize for the first best book by an Australian scholar in any field. Her articles and essays have appeared in a wide range of outlets, including American Historical Review, Postcolonial Studies, Public Culture, and Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. She has also taught at the University of Sydney, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of Michigan.
Sponsored by UW-Madison Department of History, Harvey Goldberg Center