American Genocide

Benjamin Madley, Ph.D.
Department of History, UCLA

Via Zoom
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

UCLA History Professor Benjamin Madley will be speaking about his book, An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873.

Madley received B.A., M.A., M Phil., and Ph.D. degrees in History from Yale. He also received a M.St. degree in History from Oxford University.

Madley 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 the relationship between colonizers and indigenous peoples. He writes about American Indians as well as colonial genocides in Africa, Australia, and Europe, often applying a transnational and comparative approach. His current research explores Native American labor in the making of the western United States.