Pekka Hämäläinen

Pekka Hämäläinen is the Rhodes Professor of American History and Fellow of St. Catherine’s College at Oxford University. He has served as the principal investigator of a five-year project on nomadic empires in world history, funded by the European Research Council. He is the author of Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power and The Comanche Empire, which won the Bancroft Prize in 2009.