Conference Keynote: Benjamin Madley

• Benjamin Madley (University of California, Los Angeles, US, History)
  An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873

Benjamin Madley is Associate Professor of History at University of California, Los Angeles. He is an historian of Native America, the United States, and colonialism in world history. Born in Redding, California, he spent much of his childhood in Karuk Country near the Oregon border where he became interested in relations between colonizers and Indigenous people. Educated at Yale and Oxford, he writes about Native Americans as well as colonialism in Africa, Australia, and Europe, often applying a transnational and comparative approach. Professor Madley is the author of nineteen journal articles and book chapters. His first book An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873, published by Yale University Press, was awarded an array of prizes and honors, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History, the Raphael Lemkin Book Award from the Institute for the Study of Genocide, and the Charles Redd Center/Phi Alpha Theta Award for the Best Book on the American West. Professor Madley recently co-edited The Cambridge World History of Genocide, Volume 2: Genocide in the Indigenous, Early Modern, and Imperial Worlds, 1535-1914 (forthcoming, 2023), with historians Ned Blackhawk, Ben Kiernan, and Rebe Taylor. His current research explores Native American migration and labor in the making of the United States. Read more about Professor Madley’s work on his faculty website here.