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History Program
Staff Profiles
Dr Patrick Wolfe
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Charles La Trobe Research Fellow
Room: David Myers Building E126
Tel: (61 3) 9479 2041
Fax: (61 3) 9479 1942
Email: patrick.wolfe@latrobe.edu.au
Qualifications: BA (Combined Hons, Faculty Prize), University of Melbourne; MSc (Distinction), University of London (LSE); PhD, University of Melbourne. |
Patrick Wolfe recently joined the History Program as an ARC Australian Research Fellow and Charles La Trobe Research Fellow. He previously held research fellowships and lectureships at Victoria University, Australia, and the University of Melbourne. He has had visiting appointments at the University of Bologna and the University of New Orleans. He was awarded the Dean’s Prize for Undergraduate Teaching in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne and recently became the first Australian to be appointed to the Organization of American Historians’ Distinguished Lectureship Program.
He has published, taught and lectured internationally on race, colonialism, theories of imperialism, genocide, the history of anthropology and Aboriginal history.
His current research interests include concepts, doctrines and practices of race, comparative colonialism, Islamophobia, and Indian nationalism.
His current research projects include a comparative history of racial formations and a history of settler colonialism in the United States West.
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Publications relevant to his current research include
- ‘Nation and MiscegeNation: Discursive Continuity in the Post-Mabo Era’, Social Analysis, 34, 1994: 93-152.
- ‘History and Imperialism: A Century of Theory, from Marx to Postcolonialism’, American Historical Review, 102, 1997: 388-420.
- ‘Should the Subaltern Dream? “Australian Aborigines” and the Problem of Ethnographic Ventriloquism’, in Humphreys, S. (ed.), Cultures of Scholarship (Ann Arbor, Michigan UP, 1997): 57-96.
- Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology (London; Cassell, 1999).
- 'Land, Labor, and Difference: Elementary Structures of Race' (American Historical Review Forum Essay for 2001), American Historical Review, 106 (2001): 866-905.
- 'Race and Racialisation: Some Thoughts', Postcolonial Studies, 5 (2002): 51-62.
- 'Can the Muslim Speak? An Indebted Critique', History and Theory, 41 (2002): 367-80.
- ‘The World of History and the World-as-History: twentieth-century theories of imperialism’, in Duara, P. (ed.), Decolonization: Perspectives from now and then (New York, Routledge, 2004): 101-117.
- 'Il musulmano ha diritto di parola? Un crittica obligata' (revised version of 'Can the Muslim Speak?', Italian), in Albertazzi, S., B. Maj and R. Vecchi (eds), Perriferie della storia: Il passato come rappresentazione nelle culture omeoglotte (Quodlibet; Rome, 2004): 39-69.
- ‘Race and Citizenship’, Organization of American Historians Magazine of History, 18, 5 (2004): 66-71.
- ‘Islam, Europe and Indian Nationalism: towards a postcolonial transnationalism’, in Curthoys, A., and M. Lake (eds), Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective (Canberra, ANU E-Press, 2005): 233-65.
- ‘Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native’, Journal of Genocide Research, 8 (2006): 387-410.
- ‘Corpus Nullius: The exception of Indians and other aliens in US constitutional discourse’, Postcolonial Studies, 10 (2007): 127-51.
- ‘Palestine, Project Europe and the (Un-)making of the New Jew. In memory of Edward W. Said’, in Curthoys, N. and D. Ganguly (eds), Edward Said: The legacy of a public intellectual (Melbourne UP, 2007): 312-37.
- ‘Structure and Event: Settler Colonialism, Time, and the Question of Genocide’, in Moses, A.D. (ed.), Empire, Colony, Genocide (New York, Berghahn, 2008): 102-132.
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He currently holds an ARC Australian Research Fellowship ($470,000) for a project entitled ‘Xenologies: Discourses on Aliens, Foreigners & Other Races in Transnational Historical Context’
- Sarah Desantis
- Ben Silverstein
- Matthew Doherty
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