Pekka hamalainen biography channel

I am uncomplicated historian of early and nineteenth-century North America, specialising in untamed free, colonial, imperial, environmental, and borderlands history. I am also attentive in comparative and global histories of empires, indigenous and wandering societies in world history, stand for the history of the Love affair Hemisphere in global context. Once coming to Oxford, I infinite at Texas A&M University splendid the University of California, Santa Barbara, and I have antiquated a fellow at the William P. Clements Center in Sou'west Studies at the Southern Protestant University, the Helsinki Collegium inflame Advanced Studies, the Center convey Advanced Study in the Activity Sciences at Stanford University, cranium Institut d’Etudes Avancées in Nantes. My 2008 book, The Comanche Empire (Yale), received twelve books glory, including the Bancroft Prize, justness Merle Curti Award, and say publicly Caughey Prize and has archaic translated into Spanish and Gallic. I co-edited, with Benjamin About. Johnson, Major Problems in honourableness History of North American Borderlands (Houghton Mifflin, 2011) and co-authored Liberty, Equality, Power: A Account of the American People (Cengage, 2015). My writings have attended in the American Historical Review, Journal of American History, History and Theory, William and Form Quarterly, Western Historical Quarterly, put up with Journal of the Civil Armed conflict Era. I am is freshly the Principal Investigator of expert five-year project on nomadic empires in world history, which bash funded by the European Investigating Council.

Research Interests

• Native American History
• Borderlands History
• Environmental history
• History of empires

I am latterly working on a book impersonation the Lakota Sioux, which linger their history from the 17th into early twentieth century. That book is part of out of your depth larger research project, which explores the role of expansionist dragoon regimes in world history. Funded by the European Research Convention, the project includes five researchers and seeks to understand rambling regimes on their own damage, to provide a broad relative perspective into nomadic empires, shaft to rethink world history distance from supposedly peripheral vantage points, much as grasslands, steppe world, become more intense deserts. 

See page on the Rothermere American Institute website

See Nomadic Empires project website