Patrick Wolfe

Patrick Wolfe (1949 – 18 February 2016) He also made significant contributions to several academic fields, including anthropology, genocide studies, Indigenous studies, and the historiography of race, colonialism, and imperialism.

Biography Wolfe was born to an Irish Catholic and German Jewish family in Yorkshire where he received a Jesuit education. In the 1970s he collaborated with Sibnarayan Ray and Greg Dening as an undergraduate. He never held an academic tenure or a permanent university position. His research spanned race and colonialism around the world.

Wolfe's home was Healesville on Wurundjeri country. At his memorial service, Wurundjeri Elder Aunty Joy Murphy Wandin described Wolfe as a cherished friend of the Wurundjeri.

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

Edited collections The Settler Complex: Recuperating Binarism in Colonial Studies (editor Patrick Wolfe, 2016) Sovereignty: Frontiers of Possibility, co-edited by Julie Evans, Ann Genovese, Alexander Reilly, and Patrick Wolfe (2012)

Academic articles "Land, Labor, and Difference: Elementary Structures of Race" in The American Historical Review 106, no. 3 (2001): 866–905. "Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native" in Journal of Genocide Research, no. 8 (2006): 387–409.