Dr. Coll Thrush

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Professor

Department of History


Coll Thrush is professor of history and Killam teaching laureate at the University of British Columbia and associate faculty at UBC’s Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies. He is the author of Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place (2007/2017), co-editor of Phantom Past, Indigenous Presence: Native Ghosts in North American History & Culture (2011), and the author of Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire (2016). His most recent book, published this past May, is Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific. He is also a founding series editor of Indigenous Confluences at the University of Washington Press.

 


  • Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Annual Meeting 2017 (NAISA 2017)

    June 22-24, 2017

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNj-aazZsyw

    The 2017 North American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) Annual Meeting was held at the University of British Columbia June 22 to 24th. Co-hosts, Prof Coll Thrush and Prof Dory Nason, welcomed over 1000 delegates to campus. NAISA It is the largest scholarly organization devoted to Indigenous issues and research.


Publications


  • C. Thrush. Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific. University of Washington Press, 2025.
    2025