Ned Blackhawk

Professor of History & American Studies

(Leave of absence, Spring 2012)

Office: HGS 2679

Phone: (203) 432-8530

Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone) is a Professor of History and American Studies at Yale and was on the faculty from 1999 to 2009 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. A graduate of McGill University, he holds graduate degrees in History from UCLA and the University of Washington and is the author of Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the early American West (Harvard, 2006), a study of the American Great Basin that garnered half a dozen professional prizes, including the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize from the Organization of American Historians.

In addition to serving in professional associations and on the editorial boards of American Quarterly and Ethnohistory, Professor Blackhawk has led the establishment of two fellowships, one for American Indian Students to attend the Western History Association's annual conference, the other for doctoral students working on American Indian Studies dissertations at Yale named after Henry Roe Cloud (Winnebago, Class of 1910).

Degrees Received

1999 Ph.D. in History, University of Washington

1994 Master’s Degree in History, University of California, Los Angeles

1992 Bachelor of Arts in Honours History, McGill University

Select Grants and Honors (Since Receiving Ph.d.)

2011 Book of the Decade Award, Native American and Indigenous Studies

Association (NAISA), for “one of the ten most influential books in Native

American and Indigenous Studies in the first decade of the twenty-first

century”

2009 Diverse Magazine’s Under 40 Emerging Scholar Award

2008 John C. Ewers Award for the best book on North American Indian

Ethnohistory, Western History Association

2007 Frederick Jackson Turner Award for the most significant first book in American

History, Organization of American Historians

2007 Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize for the best book of the year, the American

Society for Ethnohistory

2007 William P. Clements Prize for the best non-fiction book on Southwestern

America for 2006, Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern

Methodist University

2007 Robert M. Utley Award for the best book on the military history of the

American Frontier, Western History Association

2007 Lora Romero First Book Prize, American Studies Association

2006 Faculty Guest Coach Program, Division of Intercollegiate Athletics, UW

Madison

2005 Summer Research Service Grant, Provost’s Office, UW Madison

2005 Institute on Race and Ethnicity Campus Reading Award, UW Institute on

Race and Ethnicity

2005 Outstanding Mentor Award, The Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate

Achievement Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison

2004 Visiting Faculty Fellowship, Research Institute of Comparative Studies in Race

and Ethnicity, Stanford University

2001 Postdoctoral Award, Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Program,

National Research Council

Select Editorial Positions and Service in Professional Associations

2011 Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize Committee, American Society for Ethnohistory

2011 American Indian Advisory Board, Utah Museum of Natural History “Native

Voices” Permanent Exhibition Design Team

2011 Series Co-Editor, Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity,

Yale University Press (founding editor in Fall 2010)

2010- Series Co-Editor, Cambridge Studies in North American Indian History,

Cambridge University Press

2010 Frederick Douglas Prize Committee, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of

Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University Faculty Representative

2010 Humanities Grant Panel Review, National Endowment for the Humanities

2010 American Indian Advisory Board-Museum Design Team, Utah Museum of

Natural History

2010 Frederick Jackson Turner Prize Committee, Organization of American

Historians

2010 John Ewers Prize Committee, Western History Association

2008- Editorial Board, Ethnohistory, the American Society for Ethnohistory

2007- Advisory Board, American Quarterly, American Studies Association

2007 Program Committee, Western History Association 2008 Conference

2004 Gibson Award Committee, Western History Association (Best Article of the

Year in North American Indian History). 3-year appointment, 2004-06, Chair ‘06

1998 Conference Program Committee Member, “American Studies and the

Question of Empire: Histories, Cultures and Practices,” American Studies

Association, 1998

Bibliography: Articles, Chapters, Books, and Essays

2012 “Visualizing the Violent Spread of Equestrianism: Revisiting the Segesser

Hide Paintings,” in Recreating America, edited by Julianna Barr and Edward

Countryman in Commemoration of the Scholarly Influences of David J. Weber

(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press) forthcoming

2011 “Currents in North American Indian Historiography,” Western Historical

Quarterly, 50th Anniversary Special Issue, “The WHA at Fifty: Essays on the

State of Western History Scholarship,” 42 (Autumn 2011): 319-324

2011 “Violence over the Great Basin: An Interview with Ned Blackhawk,” in

Deborah and Jon Lawrence, eds., Violent Encounters: Interviews on Western

Massacres (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2011), 161-179

2011 “American Indians and the Study of U.S. History,” in American History Now, co-

edited for the American Historical Association by Eric Foner and Lisa McGirr,

(Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011), 378-401

2010 History of Native America (Prince Fredrick, MD: Recorded Books) 14-lecture

DVD audio course with 114-page study guide

2010 “Forum Essay on Brian Delay’s War of A Thousand Deserts,” Society for the Study of the Early Republic (SHEAR) online forum, Nov. 16th, 2010

2010 “Contradictions in Indian Art: Contemporary Native American Arts and the

National Museum of the American Indian,” American Quarterly 62: 2 (June

2010), 387-394

2010 “‘Dey Take Indian For Slave’: Visions of Enslavement in Marcus Rediker’s The

Slave Ship and Barry Unsworth’s Sacred Hunger,” Atlantic Studies 7: 1 (March

2010), 27-32 (part of “Colloquoy with Marcus Rediker on The Slave Ship: A

Human History,” edited by Dennis Moore)

2009 “Recasting the Narrative of America: The Rewards and Challenges of

Teaching American Indian History,” in Gary J. Kornblith and Carol Lasser, eds.,

Teaching American History: Essays Adapted from the Journal of American

History, 2001-2007 (Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2009), 217-223 (originally

published in The Journal of American History, Textbooks and Teaching Forum,

March 2007,1165-1170)

2007 “The Primacy of Violence in Great Basin Indian History,” in Journal of West,

Special Issue on Native American History, 46: 4 (Fall 2007), 10-17

2007 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)

2007 “Swiftly Moving Currents: American Indian History and the Changing

Complexity of the Lewis and Clark Expedition,” Introduction, Between

Empires: Indians in the American West during the Age of Empire, Special Issue

of Ethnohistory 54:4 (Fall 2007), 583-589

2007 “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

2007 “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 59. 1 (March 2007), 211-218

2006 Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West

(Harvard University Press, 2006; reprint 2007; paperback 2008; Kindle 2010)

2008 John C. Ewers Award, Western History Association
2007 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians
2007 Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize, the American Society for Ethnohistory
2007 Robert M. Utley Award, Western History Association
2007 Lora Romero First Book Prize, American Studies Association
2006 Clements Prize for the best nonfiction book of the year on Southwestern America, Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University

2006 “The Road to a New Era of American Indian Autonomy,” History Now, Special

Issue on Western American History, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American

History

2005 “Look How Far We’ve Come: How American Indian History Changed the

Study of U.S. History in the 1990s,” Organization of American Historians’

Magazine of History, Special Issue on “The American West,” Clyde Milner and

Anne Butler, eds., Volume 19:6, November 2005, 13-17

2005 “Confronting Indian Imagery in America: Resisting the Misrepresentation of

American Indians, A Personal Story,” in Simon Ortiz, ed. Beyond the Reach of

Time and Change: Native American Reflections on the Frank A. Rinehart

Photograph Collection (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, Volume 53 in the

Sun Tracks Series of American Indian Literary Voices), 27-31

2000 The Shoshone, Nonfiction Children’s Book in the Indian Nations Tribal History

Series, Herman Viola, Senior Ed., (Austin: Raintree Steck-Vaughn Publishers)

1999 “Julian Steward and the Politics of Representation” in Richard O. Clemmer, L.

Daniel Myers, and Elizabeth Rudden, eds., Julian Steward and the Great Basin:

The Making of an Anthropologist (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press), 181-

201; previously published as “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

1995 “‘I Can Carry on from Here’: The Relocation of American Indians to Los

Angeles,” Wicazo Sa Review: Journal of Native American Studies XI: 2 (Fall

1995): 16-30

Reference Works

2010 Navajo-Ute Trade Blanket Entry in Cécile R. Ganteaume, ed., Infinity of

Nations: Art and History in the Collections of the National Museum of the

American Indian (Smithsonian Press, 2010)

2009 “The Ute Conflict,” 500-word Ute entry in Dee Brown’s, Bury My Heart at

Wounded Knee: The Illustrated Edition: An Indian History of the American West

(Sterling, 2009)

2008 “Native Americans and the West: Introduction to the Everett D. Graff

Collection of Western Americana at the Newberry Library,” Adam Matthew

Digital Publications (4,000 words)

2007 Opechancanough (750-word entry) in Treaties with American Indians: An Encyclopedia of Rights, Conflicts, and Sovereignty, Donald L. Fixico, editor (ABC-

CLIO, 2007)

2004 Foreword, Encyclopedia of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, eds. Elin Woodger

and Brandon Toporov (New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2004), xi-xii

2003 17 entries on American Indian history and law in Dictionary of American

History, 3rd. Edition, Stanley Kutler, general editor (New York: Scribners,

2003)

2003 Native Americans of North America: “History” Section, 2003 Microsoft Encarta

Encyclopedia, (10,000 word entry and synthetic version of what will form the

basis for current project, Surviving the American Conquest)

1998 “Great Basin Regional Essay,” The Great Basin and Southwest, Volume 2, The

Gale Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes, (Detroit: Gale Research, 1998)

Book Reviews and Newspaper Columns

2009 Book Review of Bray Delay, The War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and

the U.S.-Mexican War (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008) in the Journal

of Military History

2009 Book Review of Pekka Hamalainen, The Comanche Empire (New Haven: Yale

2008) in the New Mexico Historical Review.

2008 Book Review of Christian W. McMillen, Making Indian Law: The Haulapai Land

Case and the Birth of Ethnohistory (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007) in

the Australasian Journal of American Studies 27:1 (July 2008), 122-125

2007 “U.S. Must Return Land Seized in 1877 to Lakota,” February 28, 2007, Wire-

Service of The Progressive, distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Services to over

400 U.S. and Canadian newspapers, picked up by a dozen regional papers

2004 Book Review of James F. Brooks, Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and

Community in the Southwest Borderlands (Chapel Hill: University of North

Carolina Press, 2002) in the American Indian Culture and Research Journal 28:1

(2004)

2003 Book Review of Alan Taylor, American Colonies: The Settling of North America

(New York: Penguin-Putnam Publishers, 2001) in the American Indian Culture

and Research Journal 27:1 (2003) (Lead Review)

2003 Book Review of Martha Knack, Boundaries Between: An Ethnohistory of the

Southern Paiutes (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001) in the New

Mexico Historical Review (Winter 2003)

2002 Book Review of Donald Fixico, The Urban Indian Experience in America

(Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000) in the Pacific Historical

Review (Spring 2002)

1999 Book Review of Devon A. Mihesuah, ed., Natives and Academics: Researching

and Writing About American Indians (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,

1998) in the Western Historical Quarterly (Summer 1999)