Patrick Wolfe

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Patrick Wolfe
Born1949
Yorkshire, England
Died2016 (aged 66–67)
Melbourne, Australia
OccupationHistorian, anthropologist
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Melbourne (B.A., Ph.D.), London School of Economics (M.Sc.)
Doctoral advisorDipesh Chakrabarty
Academic work
InstitutionsVictoria University, Melbourne, La Trobe University
Main interestsAboriginal history
InfluencedSettler colonial studies

Patrick Wolfe (1949 – 18 February 2016) was an Australian historian and scholar. As an anthropologist and ethnographer, he is best known and remembered for his work on colonialism and settler colonialism. An article in the journal Aboriginal History notes that Wolfe "...was able to contribute seminally to a variety of fields: anthropology, genocide studies, the historiography of race, indigenous studies, and the study of colonialism and imperialism".[1]

About[]

Wolfe was born in an Irish Catholic and German Jewish Yorkshire family and educated Jesuit.[2] In the 1970s he collaborated with Sibnarayan Ray and Greg Dening as an undergraduate.[2] Along with Maurice Bloch, he did his post-graduation in social anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.[2] He then went on to complete pursue his doctoral studies with Greg Dening under the supervision of Dipesh Chakrabarty.[2] As a doctoral student he taught aboriginal history at the University of Melbourne.[2] He was associated with a number of universities in Australia including Victoria University, and La Trobe University as a teacher and researcher. Wolfe was offered fellowships in Harvard and Stanford among other places.[3] He never held an academic tenure or a permanent university position.[4] His research spanned race and colonialism around the world.[5]

Wolfe's home was Healesville. At his memorial service, Joy Murphy Wandin, a Wurundjeri elder, said that Wolfe was a cherished friend of the Wurundjeri people.[4]

Works[]

  • Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race (2016)
  • Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology (1999)

References[]

  1. ^ Veracini, Lorenzo (2016). "Patrick Wolfe's dialectics". Aboriginal History. 40: 249–260. ISSN 0314-8769.
  2. ^ a b c d e Silverstein, Ben (2016). "Patrick Wolfe (1949–2016)". History Workshop Journal. 82 (1): 315–323. ISSN 1477-4569.
  3. ^ Chakrabarty, Dipesh (2016). Conor, Liz (ed.). "Patrick Wolfe, my 'Bondhu': In memoriam" (PDF). Aboriginal History. ANU Press, Australian National University. 40. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
  4. ^ a b Russell, Lynette (2017-01-02). "Patrick Wolfe (1949–2016)". Australian Historical Studies. 48 (1): 115–116. doi:10.1080/1031461X.2017.1264283. ISSN 1031-461X.
  5. ^ Bullimore, Kim (29 February 2016). "Patrick Wolfe: scholar, activist and friend of Palestine". Red Flag. A publication of Socialist Alternative. Retrieved 2021-10-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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