Staff profile

Dr Claudia Haake

Senior Lecturer, History Postgraduate Coordinator

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Historical and European Studies

DMB E134, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

MA (Johns Hopkins), PhD (Bielefeld).

Area of study

History
Latin American Studies

Brief profile

Claudia Haake joined the History Program in second semester 2007, after having been a lecturer at the University of York (UK). She also taught at the University of Bielefeld (Germany) and the University of Cologne (Germany). Claudia's primary research interest is Native American History from the 19th century onward. She is especially interested in North American Natives from Mexico and the US. Her major areas of interest in Native American Studies are ethnicity, identity and culture. Her work for her first book has focused on identity issues in a transnational comparative framework, investigating the cases of the Mexican Yaquis and the United States Delawares. She has compared state policies towards indigenous peoples in Mexico and the US. She also maintains an interest in minorities in the United States, rights, especially land and treaty rights, as well as in the history of 20th century Guatemala.

Claudia is a recent recipient of both a Faculty and University citation for oustanding contribution to student learning.

Research interests

Latin American History

- Indigenous history

- Mexico and Guatemala

North American History

- 19th century US History

- Indigenous History of the Americas (especially the removal policy in the United States)

Teaching units

  • HIS2NCA - Nation and Capitalism - The Rise of the Modern World (with Ian Coller and Jennifer Ridden).
  • HIS2/3WOR - Historical Justice in the Modern World (with Roland Burke).
  • HIS2/3MAN - Making ‘Natives’: Comparative colonial encounters (with Tracey Banivanua Mar).
  • HIS2/3GAH - Genocides and the Holocaust (with Ian Coller).

 

Recent publications

  • “’In the same predicament as heretofore’- Pro-Removal arguments in Seneca letters from Buffalo Creek in the 1830s and 40s’, Ethnohistory, (forthcoming).
  • “Native American History – An Outsider’s Perspective from Down Under”, Journal of the West, Vol. 49, No. 4, Fall 2010, 65-71.
  • “Forced Removal in the Modern World” (with Richard Bessel), in Richard Bessel and Claudia B. Haake (eds.): Removing Peoples: Forced Migration in the Modern World, Oxford University Press, 2009, 1-12.
  • “Breaking the Bonds of People and Land”, in Richard Bessel and Claudia B. Haake (eds.): Removing Peoples: Forced Migration in the Modern World, Oxford University Press, 2009, 79-105.
  • Haake, C and Bessel, R (eds), 2009, Removing Peoples: Forced Migration in the Modern World. Cambridge University Press.
  • Haake, C 2008, ‘The treaty of Fort Pitt’, in Milestones Documents in American History Volume 1: 1763- 1823, ed. Paul Finkelman and Bruce A. Lesh. New York: Schlager.
  • Haake, C 2007, The State, Removal and Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Mexico, c. 1620-2000. New York: Routledge.
  • Haake, C 2007, ‘No Place for the Delawares? – Removal and Loss of Federal Recognition’, in Place in Native American History, Literature and Culture, ed. Joy Porter. New York: Peter Lang.
  • Haake, C 2007, ‘Kampf um indigene Souveränität – Die Auslagerung politischer Kommunikation in pseudo-legale Kommunikationsräume am Beispiel der Delawaren’, in Ethnisierung und De-Ethnisierung des Politischen, ed. Christian Büschges and Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka. Frankfurt & New York: Campus Verlag.
  • Haake, C 2005, ‘Two Stories – Yaqui Resistance in Sonora and Yucatán’, in Poder y resistencia en la historia de América Latina, ed. Nikolaus Böttcher and Bernd Hausberger. Berlin/Frankfurt: Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut/Vervuert.
  • Haake, C 2003, ‘Delaware Identity in the Cherokee Nation’. Indigenous Nations Studies Journal. 3 (1): 19-45.
  • Haake, C 2002, ‘Identity, Sovereignty and Power: the Cherokee-Delaware Agreement of 1867, Past and Present’. American Indian Quarterly. 26 (3): 418-435.

Research projects

‘Our rights are dear to us': Native American political representations in the age of removal, 1830-1887 (financed partially by a Kluge Fellowship at the US Library of Congress and also through a grant from the British Academy).