Center for Indigenous Studies Presents

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of US History: A Conversation

A conversation with award-winning scholar Dr. Ned Blackhawk (Yale University) discussing his recent book, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of US History, moderated by Dr. Christian Ayne Crouch (Bard College).

Dr. Ned Blackhawk is a finalist for the National Book Award.

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Dr. 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).

Dr. Christian Ayne Crouch is the Dean of Graduate Studies, Associate Professor of History and American and Indigenous Studies, Director of the Center for Indigenous Studies, and Principal Investigator of Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck at Bard College.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected],
or visit https://bard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Vmv-j1c1RUqFbPEUsxQyUg#/registration.

Time: 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EST/GMT-5

Location: Online Event

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