Pekka Hämäläinen (historian)

Pekka Johannes Hämäläinen (born 1967, Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish professor of history. His prize-winning book,[1] The Comanche Empire, was published in 2008.[2]

Since 2012, he has been the Rhodes Professor of American History at the University of Oxford.[3][4] He was formerly in the History Department at University of California, Santa Barbara.[5]

Life

Hämäläinen was born and raised in Helsinki, Finland. It was only in secondary school that an inspiring teacher made him realize that he actually liked history, his core interest being Native American history. At university, Hämäläinen majored in history and trained to become a secondary history teacher. After finishing his M.A., he began work on his Ph.D.

He graduated from University of Helsinki, with a Ph.D. in 2001. He taught at Texas A&M University from 2002 to 2004. His work has appeared in the American Historical Review, Journal of American History, William and Mary Quarterly, and the Western Historical Quarterly.[6][7] He taught in the History Department at University of California, Santa Barbara, before he moved to Oxford University.

In 2019, Hämäläinen published a book about history of the Lakota people from the 17th century to the 20th century.

Awards

Works
  • The Comanche Empire. New Haven, CT; Yale University Press. 2008. 512 pages. ISBN 978-0300151176.
  • When Disease Makes History: Epidemics and Great Historical Turning Points. Helsinki, Finland; Yliopistopaino Printing Services. 2006. 314 pages. ISBN 978-9515706409.
  • with Benjamin H. Johnson. Major Problems in the History of North American Borderlands. Boston, MA; Cengage Learning. 2011. 568 pages. ISBN 978-0495916925.
  • Lakota America; A New History of Indigenous Power. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 2019. 542 pages. ISBN 978-0300215953.[10]

References
  1. Chabolla, Tony. "Prof. Hämäläinen's The Comanche Empire indeed garners its **twelfth** award – Department of History, UC Santa Barbara". Retrieved 2020-02-22.
  2. The Comanche Empire. New Haven, CT; Yale University Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0300151176
  3. "Professor Pekka Hämäläinen". University of Oxford Faculty of History. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  4. "Pekka has been appointed". iea-nantes.fr. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-01-10. Retrieved 2009-12-28.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. https://www.mcgill.ca/cundillprize/shortlist/biographies/%5B%5D
  7. Pekka Hämäläinen (2010). "The Politics of Grass: European Expansion, Ecological Change, and Indigenous Power in the Southwest Borderlands". The William and Mary Quarterly. 67 (2): 173. doi:10.5309/willmaryquar.67.2.173.
  8. Yale University Press
  9. http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/42146272.html
  10. "'Lakota America' Puts the Tribe of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse Front and Center". New York Times. 22 October 2019.
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