Pekka Hämäläinen (historian)
Pekka Hämäläinen is a Rhodes Professor at the University of Oxford and associate professor of history at University of California at Santa Barbara[1] and an author.[2]
Life
He graduated from University of Helsinki, with a Ph.D. in 2001. He taught at Texas A&M University from 2002 to 2004. His work has appeared in the American Historical Review, Journal of American History,William and Mary Quarterly,and the Western Historical Quarterly.[3][4]
Awards
- 2009 Bancroft Prize
- 2008 Kate Broocks Bates Award
- 2009 Merle Curti Award[2][5]
- 2009 Cundill Prize, runner-up
Book
- Pekka Hämäläinen (2008). The Comanche Empire. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-12654-9. originally his 2001 thesis The Comanche Empire: A Study of Indigenous Power, 1700-1875