After working for twenty years as a professor of indigenous histories at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Prof. James Taylor Carson now heads the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University. In addition to ethnohistorical investigations of the colonial past, he also writes on the uses of racial language in modern scholarship. His most recent book is The Columbian Covenant: Race and the Writing of American History (Palgrave, 2015).