Staff profile

Dr Patrick Wolfe

Research Fellow

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Historical and European Studies

DMB E126, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA (Combined Hons-Melbourne), MSc (Univ of London-LSE), PhD (Melbourne).

Area of study

Latin American Studies
History

Brief Profile

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 published, taught and lectured internationally on race, colonialism, theories of imperialism, genocide, the history of anthropology and Aboriginal history.

Research interests

Asian History

- Islamophobia, and Indian nationalism

Australian History

- Comparative colonialism

Human Rights and Justice Issues

- Concepts, doctrines and practices of race

Recent Publications

Wolfe, P 2008, ‘Structure and Event: Settler Colonialism, Time, and the Question of Genocide’, in Empire, Colony, Genocide, ed. AD Moses. New York: Berghahn.

 

Wolfe, P 2007, Corpus Nullius: The exception of Indians and other aliens in US constitutional discourse. Postcolonial Studies. 10: 127-51.

 

Wolfe, P 2007, ‘Palestine, Project Europe and the (Un-making of the New Jew In memory of Edward W. Said’, in Edward Said: The legacy of a public intellectual, ed. N Curthoys & D Ganguly. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.

 

Wolfe, P 2006, ‘Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native’. Journal of Genocide Research. 8: 387-410.

 

Wolfe, P 2005, ‘Islam, Europe and Indian Nationalism: towards a postcolonial transnationalism’, in Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective, ed. A Curthoys & M Lake. Canberra: ANU E-Press.

 

Wolfe, P 2004, ‘The World of History and the World-as-History: twentieth-century theories of imperialism’, in Decolonization: Perspectives from now and then, ed. P Duara. New York: Routledge.

 

Wolfe, P 2004, ‘Race and Citizenship’. Organization of American Historians Magazine of History. 18(5): 66-71.

 

Wolfe, P 2002, ‘Can the Muslim Speak? An Indebted Critique’. History and Theory. 41: 367-80.

 

Wolfe, P 1999, Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology. London: Cassell.

 

Wolfe, P 1997, ‘Should the Subaltern Dream? Australian Aborigines and the Problem of Ethnographic Ventriloquism’, in Cultures of Scholarship, ed. S Humphreys. Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press.

Research projects

Comparative history of racial formations and a history of settler colonialism in the United States West.