Patrick Wolfe is Charles La Trobe Research Fellow at La Trobe University in Victoria, Australia. He has researched, taught, lectured, and written on race and colonialism in the United States, Australia, Brazil, and India. He established the teaching of Aboriginal history at the University of Melbourne, where he was awarded the Faculty of Arts Dean's Teaching Award, and has presented lectures and seminars on race and racial issues in the United States and other countries. He is currently working on a transnational history of settler-colonial policies on Native peoples.

Lecture topics:

• Any Color You Want So Long As It's Not Black: African Americans and the Strange Career of Race
• Where Did the Vanishing Indian Vanish To? Happy and Not So Happy Hunting Grounds in U.S. Indian Policy
• Races for Places: Different Societies, Different Histories, and Different Differences (a comparative view of race)

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