University of Wisconsin historian named emerging scholar
University of Wisconsin Associate Professor of History Ned Blackhawk has been named as one of 10 emerging scholars nationally by "Diverse" magazine.
Blackhawk, on the UW History staff since 1999, is an expert on the history of Native American people and the complex and often tragic conflicts between natives and European settlers in the American West.
His 2006 book "Violence over the Land," won numerous awards, including the Frederick Jackson Turn award for the most significant first book on American History.
Diverse magazine calls him one of the 10 emerging scholars, a group of "crusaders" under age 40 who are "pushing the boundaries of research, technology and public policy in ways never imagined and reaching new heights of accomplishments."
Among the courses Blackhawk teaches at the UW is one that encourages students to write tribal histories based on primary research done at the Wisconsin Historical Society, which has one of the nation's largest collections of materials relating to the American West....
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Blackhawk, on the UW History staff since 1999, is an expert on the history of Native American people and the complex and often tragic conflicts between natives and European settlers in the American West.
His 2006 book "Violence over the Land," won numerous awards, including the Frederick Jackson Turn award for the most significant first book on American History.
Diverse magazine calls him one of the 10 emerging scholars, a group of "crusaders" under age 40 who are "pushing the boundaries of research, technology and public policy in ways never imagined and reaching new heights of accomplishments."
Among the courses Blackhawk teaches at the UW is one that encourages students to write tribal histories based on primary research done at the Wisconsin Historical Society, which has one of the nation's largest collections of materials relating to the American West....