Thrush will present "Imagining Urban Indigenous Landscapes - Thoughts from Seattle, Vancouver, and London." This presentation is free and open to the public.
Thrush was raised in the Puget Sound region and is a graduate of Western Washington University’s Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies. He is an assistant professor of history at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where he teaches indigenous, environmental, cultural, and world history. He also serves on UBC’s research ethics board and on the Faculty of Arts Aboriginal Advisory Committee. He is the author of “Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place,” which won the 2007 Washington State Book Award for History and Biography; and co-editor of “Phantom Pasts, Indigenous Presence: Native American Ghosts and Hauntings in North American History and Culture,” forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press....
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