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.

Lachlan McNamee is a Lecturer of Politics at Monash University. His area of expertise is the comparative politics of settler colonialism, empire, and political violence with a regional focus on the Asia-Pacific.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Lachlan:

Alvita Akiboh, "Imperial Material: National Symbols in the US Colonial Empire" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

March 3, 2024

Imperial Material

Alvita Akiboh
Hosted by Lachlan McNamee

This is an ambitious history of flags, stamps, and currency—and the role they played in US imperialism over the 20th century. In Imperial Material: Na…

David Myer Temin, "Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

November 15, 2023

Remapping Sovereignty

David Myer Temin
Hosted by Lachlan McNamee

Accounts of decolonization routinely neglect Indigenous societies in North America and Australasia, yet Native communities have made unique contributi…