Born into a Irish Catholic and German Jewish family in Yorkshire, England, his works are credited with establishing the field of settler colonial studies.
[3] Wolfe was born to an Irish Catholic and German Jewish family in Yorkshire where he received a Jesuit education.
[1] Along with Maurice Bloch, he began his post-graduate studies in social anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
[1] He then went on to pursue his doctorate with Greg Dening under the supervision of Dipesh Chakrabarty.
[1] As a doctoral student he taught Aboriginal history at the University of Melbourne.