Pekka Hämäläinen (historian)
Rhodes Professor at the University of Oxford and associate professor of history at University of California at Santa Barbara and an author
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Pekka Hämäläinen (born 1967, Helsinki) is a Finnish professor is currently a Rhodes Professor at the University of Oxford and was formerly in the History Department at University of California at Santa Barbara and the author of a multiple prize-winning book, The Comanche Empire.
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. He taught in the History Department at University of California, Santa Barbara before moving to Oxford University.