Ned Blackhawk: Native American Studies

Professor Blackhawk’s field of interest is American Indian history. He is the author of Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West, a study of the American Great Basin that garnered numerous professional prizes, including the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize from the Organization of American Historians. He has also published numerous “state of the field” essays for many of America’s leading professional historical associations, and has help to build the newly established Native American Cultural Center at Yale.
Episode November 11, 2015