Ned Blackhawk Editor & Author

Ned Blackhawk is the Randolph W. Townsend, Jr. Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University. His book Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the early American West (2006) won half a dozen awards, including the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize from the Organization of American Historians. Ben Kiernan is the Griswold Professor of History at Yale University and founding Director of Yale's Genocide Studies Program. His book Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur (2007) won numerous awards, including a gold medal for the best work of history, awarded by the Independent Publishers Association. Benjamin Madley is Associate Professor of History at UCLA. His focus is on Native Americans, as well as colonialism in Africa, Australia, and Europe, often applying a transnational and comparative approach. His book An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 (2016) won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History. Rebe Taylor is Associate Professor of History at the College of Arts, Law and Education (CALE) at the University of Tasmania. Specializing in the histories of southeast Australian indigenous peoples, her most recent book Into the Heart of Tasmania (2007) won the 2018 Tasmanian Book Prize. Ben Kiernan is the Griswold Professor of History at Yale University and founding Director of Yale's Genocide Studies Program. His book Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur (2007) won numerous awards, including a gold medal for the best work of history, awarded by the Independent Publishers Association.