James Taylor Carson

Prof. James Taylor Carson is head of the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University. Prior to his arrival in Brisbane, he taught and wrote about first peoples’ histories in North America at Queen’s University in Canada. His most recent book, The Columbian Covenant (2015), explores the cultural consequences of historians’ commitment to reproducing race in academic writing, and he, when not running the School, is currently finishing a novel manuscript on the American Civil War, an essay on the relationship between Nature and the Anthropocene and an article on the colonial commitments that constitute the modern Australian state.