Ned Blackhawk

Ned Blackhawk is an American historian and a member of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians. He is a professor of history and American Studies at Yale University. He received his BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his PhD from the University of Washington. He is the author of Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West (2006), which won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award. His book The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of US History (2023) is a major reinterpretation of American history from the perspective of Indigenous peoples, arguing that Native peoples have been central actors in the making of the United States from the founding era to the present. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for History, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction in 2024, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, and the Bancroft Prize. It was hailed as a transformative work of American historiography. Blackhawk has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and other institutions. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.