Editor's Note

Dr. Janne Lahti teaches history at the University of Helsinki, Finland, as an adjunct professor. He has held a Fulbright fellowship at the University of Nebraska-
Lincoln, taught at the University of Arizona, and been awarded the Huntington Library’s Mayers Fellowship. His research focuses on global and transnational
histories of settler colonialism, borderlands, and the American West. His books include Wars for Empire: Apaches, the United States, and the Southwest Borderlands (University of Oklahoma Press, 2017) and Cultural Construction of Empire: The U.S. Army in Arizona and New Mexico (University of Nebraska Press, 2012). His articles have appeared, for example, in the Western Historical Quarterly, Journal of the West, and New Mexico Historical Review. His next book The American West and the World: Transnational and Comparative Perspectives is forthcoming from Routledge. He can be reached at janne.lahti@helsinki.fi.