Athearn Lecture Series
THE 34th ATHEARN LECTURE / April 14, 2025
The Department of History at CU Boulder, in partnership with the Center for Humanities and the Arts, and the Center of the American West presents the 34thÌýAthearn Lecture in the History of the American West. This year’s lecture will be by Dr. Maggie Blackhawk, Professor of Law at New York University, author ofÌý
Monday, April 14, 2025 / 5:00 PM / 101, (Wittemyer Courtroom)
RECEPTION TO FOLLOW / Wolf Law 100, (Boettcher Reception Hall, next door).
2450 Kittredge Loop Drive, Boulder, Colorado
Dr. Maggie Blackhawk
New York University
"The Constitution of American Colonialism"
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The 34th Athearn Lecture Series welcomes to the CU Boulder campus Dr. Maggie Blackhawk, Professor of Law - New York University, on April 14, 2025. The lecture titled, "The Constitution of American Colonialism" is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
(Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe) is professor of law at NYU and a prize-winning scholar and teacher of federal Indian law, constitutional law, and legislation. Blackhawk was awarded the American Society for Legal History’s William Nelson Cromwell Article Prize and her research has been published or is forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Supreme Court Review, American Historical Review, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Journal of the Early Republic, and Journal of Politics. Much of her scholarship explores the relationship between law and power, with a particular emphasis on the ways that subordinated peoples leverage law to shift power to their communities—especially outside of rights and courts-based frameworks. Her recent projects have focused on the laws and legal histories of American colonialism and the central role of the American colonial project, including the resistance and advocacy of Native and other colonized peoples, in shaping the constitutional law and history of the United States. ()
ÌýEmail: (Honor.Sachs@colorado.edu) for information on this free public event
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ABOUT ROBERT ATHEARN
The lateÌýDr. Robert G. Athearn (1914–1983) was a professor of Western History at the University of Colorado at Boulder from 1947 until his retirement in 1982. An extraordinarily productive scholar, his publications includedÌýÌý(1953),ÌýÌý(1971)Ìý(1976),ÌýÌý(1977),ÌýÌý(1986), andÌýÌý(reprint 1995).
Professor Athearn was one of the founders, as well as past president, of theÌý. Additionally,Ìýduring his career held numerous positions on historical committees, academic societies, and editorial boards. His impact as a teacher was equally great.ÌýHe instructed thousands of undergraduate students over the years, and trained a score of contemporary Western historians in the profession he loved. As part of his legacy, Professor Athearn endowed a lectureship in the History DepartmentÌýat the University of Colorado at Boulder to be held on topics in Western history. We continue to host the Athearn Lecture Series, andÌýencourage you to join us at the next Athearn Lecture.Ìý