Curriculum Vitae

About

Dr. Dwain Coleman is an assistant professor of history studying the history of African Americans, the Civil War era, the environment, Latter-day Saints, and Native Americans. He is currently working on a book that examines how Black Civil War veterans and their families utilized the political capital of Black military service to redefine American citizenship in their fight to secure equal rights and build communities. In addition, he is writing a chapter on the history of Afro-Native studies for a textbook on Native American and Indigenous Studies entitled An Introduction to Native American and Indigenous Studies to be published by the University of Oklahoma Press. Dr. Coleman is also the co-director of the Iowa Colored Conventions Digital Project, which examines the transformative 19th-century national civil rights movement known as the colored conventions movement in Iowa.

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Education

• PhD., University of Iowa, Iowa City
• MA., Iowa State University, Ames
• BA., University of Las Vegas Nevada, Las Vegas

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Research Focus

African American, Civil War era, Latter-day Saint, Native American, Environmental History

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Key Publications

• The Vanguard Army of Freedom: Black Civil War Soldiers and the Struggle for Citizenship (in progress)
• “Hidden in Plain Sight: Afro-Native Studies and the Development of American Identity,” Chapter in AnIntroduction to Native American and Indigenous Studies, University of Oklahoma Press. (in progress)
• “Iowa, The Bright Radical Star of the Civil War Era,” Annals of Iowa, vol. 80, Fall 2021, pp. 383-387 (special edition of the Annals of Iowa celebrating Iowa at 175).
• “Times Certainly Have Changed”: Burlington Iowa’s Black Community on the Mississippi, 1860-1920, The Middle West Review, vol. 7, Spring 2021, pp. 29-45 (special edition examining Black migration to smaller Midwestern communities).

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Teaching

HIST 1700: American History
HIST 3730: Civil War and Reconstruction
HIST 4390: America’s First Civil Rights Movements: 1830-1930
HIST 4690: African American History: 1619-1890

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Awards

McFarland Fellowship, Library Company of Philadelphia Historical Society, 2020

Military Historical Society of Massachusetts Fellowship, Historical Society of Massachusetts, 2020

State Historical Society of Iowa Research Grant, Historical Society of Iowa, 2020