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Pekka Hämäläinen

Rhodes Professor of American History, St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford

Pekka Hämäläinen is the Rhodes Professor of American History at St Catherine’s College at the University of Oxford. He has served as the principal investigator of a five-year project on nomadic empires in world history, funded by the European Research Council. His books include The Comanche Empire (2008), Major Problems in the History of North American Borderlands (2011) co-edited with Benjamin H Johnson and, most recently, Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power (2019).

Written by Pekka Hämäläinen