NED BLACKHAWK (Western Shoshone) is the Howard R. Lamar Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University, where he is the faculty coordinator for the Yale Group for the Study of Native America. His 2023 book, The Rediscovery of America, which centers Indigenous people across a sweep of 500 years of United States history, was critically acclaimed and won the 2023 National Book Award, the 2024 Anisfield-Wolf Award, and the 2024 Mark Lynton History Prize. He is also the author of Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West. He lives in New Haven, CT.
