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Patrick Wolfe (1949 – February 18, 2016)[1] was an Australian historian and scholar who is often credited with establishing the field of settler colonial studies.[2] He made significant contributions to several academic fields, including anthropology, genocide studies, Indigenous studies, and the historiography of race, colonialism, and imperialism.[3]

Biography

Wolfe was born to an Irish Catholic and German Jewish Yorkshire family, and educated Jesuit.[1] In the 1970s he collaborated with Sibnarayan Ray and Greg Dening as an undergraduate.[1] Along with Maurice Bloch, he began his post-graduate studies in social anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.[1] He then went on to pursue his doctorate with Greg Dening under the supervision of Dipesh Chakrabarty.[1] As a doctoral student he taught Aboriginal history at the University of Melbourne.[1] He was associated with a number of universities in Australia as a teacher and researcher, including Victoria University and La Trobe University. Wolfe held fellowships at Harvard and Stanford among other places.[4] He never held an academic tenure or a permanent university position.[5] His research spanned race and colonialism around the world.[6]

Wolfe's home was Healesville on Wurundjeri country. At his memorial service, Aunty Joy Murphy Wandin, a Wurundjeri Elder, stated that Wolfe was a cherished friend of the Wurundjeri people.[5]

Works

Monographs

  • Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology (1999)
  • Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race (2016)

Edited collections

  • The Settler Complex: Recuperating Binarism in Colonial Studies (editor Patrick Wolfe, 2016)
  • Sovereignty: Frontiers of Possibility, co-edited by Julie Evans, Ann Genovese, Alexander Reilly, and Patrick Wolfe (2012)

Academic articles

  • "Land, Labor, and Difference: Elementary Structures of Race" in The American Historical Review 106, no. 3 (2001): 866–905.
  • "Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native" in Journal of Genocide Research, no. 8 (2006): 387–409.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Silverstein, Ben (2016). "Patrick Wolfe (1949–2016)". History Workshop Journal. 82 (1): 315–323. ISSN 1477-4569.
  2. ^ Speed, Shannon (2017). "Structures of Settler Capitalism in Abya Yala". American Quarterly. 69 (4): 783–790. doi:10.1353/aq.2017.0064.
  3. ^ Veracini, Lorenzo (2016). "Patrick Wolfe's dialectics". Aboriginal History. 40: 249–260. ISSN 0314-8769. JSTOR 90000806.
  4. ^ Chakrabarty, Dipesh (2016). Conor, Liz (ed.). "Patrick Wolfe, my 'Bondhu': In memoriam" (PDF). Aboriginal History. 40. Australian National University Press. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
  5. ^ a b Russell, Lynette (2 January 2017). "Patrick Wolfe (1949–2016)". Australian Historical Studies. 48 (1): 115–116. doi:10.1080/1031461X.2017.1264283. ISSN 1031-461X.
  6. ^ Bullimore, Kim (29 February 2016). "Patrick Wolfe: scholar, activist and friend of Palestine". Red Flag. Socialist Alternative. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Wolfe