Coll Thrush

Coll Thrush is a settler scholar, raised in the treaty territory of the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe near Seattle, Washington. He is professor of history at UBC, where he teaches courses ranging from Indigenous North America and Global Indigenous Histories to the American West and First Contacts in the Pacific. His first two books were Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place (2007) and Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire(2016). His most recent book is Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific, released in May 2025. It is a critical cultural history of shipwrecks on the northwest coast, focusing on the fragilities of colonialism and on the survivance of Indigenous peoples in the region.For more information about Coll, please visit the UBC History website.