About Lachlan McNamee

I'm a Lecturer of Politics at Monash University. My area of expertise is the comparative politics of settler colonialism, empire, and political violence with a regional focus on the Asia-Pacific. I received my PhD from Stanford University in 2019 and I have also held appointments at the European University Institute and UCLA. His first book Settling for Less: Why States Colonize and Why They Stop was published by Princeton University Press in 2023.