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Bio

Benjamin 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 relations between colonizers and Indigenous people. Educated at Yale and Oxford, he writes about Native Americans as well as colonialism in Africa, Australia, and Europe, often applying a transnational and comparative approach.

Madley has authored or co-authored twenty journal articles andÌýbook chapters. His articles have appeared in journals ranging fromÌýThe American Historical Review, California History,ÌýEuropean History Quarterly, andÌýtheÌýJournal of British Studies toÌýtheÌýJournal of Genocide Research,ÌýPacific Historical Review, andÌýThe Western Historical Quarterly.

Yale ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ PressÌýpublishedÌýhis first book,ÌýAn American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873.ÌýThis book received theÌýLos Angeles TimesÌýBook Prize for History, the Raphael Lemkin Book Award from the Institute for the Study of Genocide, Ìýthe Charles Redd Center/Phi Alpha Theta Award for the Best Book on the American West, the California Book Awards Gold Medal for Californiana,Ìýthe Heyday Books History Award, and the Norman Neuerburg Award from the Historical Society of Southern California.ÌýIt was also named a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, anÌýIndian Country Today Hot List book, aÌýChoice magazine Outstanding Academic Title, and a Caroline Bancroft History Prize Honor Book. True West MagazineÌýnamed Madley the Best New Western Author of 2016. In 2018, he received the California Commendation Medal from the Military Department of the State of California. According to former California Governor Jerry Brown, “Madley corrects the record with his gripping story of what really happened: the actual genocide of a vibrant civilization, thousands of years in the making.”

Madley also co-editedÌýThe Cambridge World History of Genocide, Volume 2: Genocide in the Indigenous, Early Modern, and Imperial Worlds, 1535-1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ Press, 2023), with historians Ned Blackhawk, Ben Kiernan, and Rebe Taylor.ÌýHis current research explores Native American migration and labor in the making of the United States.

Education

• Yale ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ
  Ph.D., History 2009

• Yale Unveristy
  M.Phil., History 2005

• Yale ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ
  M.A., History 2005

• Oxford ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ
  M.St., History 1998

• Yale ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ
  B.A., History summa cum laude 1994