Scholar - Women Also Know History

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Keywords: American History, Indigenous American History, Indian Removal, Indian Non-Removal, Federal power & early American state capacity, Indigenous South

Additional Contact Information: I am happy to be contacted on topics relating to my areas of research, but would recommend that outlets and journalists also contact Indigenous scholars and commentators, whose voices ought to be prioritized in conversations on Indigenous issues.

About Me: Jane Ushiyama Dinwoodie is an award-winning historian and author. She received her doctorate in American history from Oxford University and her BA and MPhil from Cambridge University. She is currently completing work on her first book, “We Remain: Indian Non-Removal in the Nineteenth-century American South,” which is forthcoming with Yale University Press.

She has researched and taught at Oxford University, the University of Pennsylvania, Cambridge University (as Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Jesus College), and University College London (as University Lecturer in Nineteenth-century American History). Her work has been published in various places, including the Journal of American History, and has won prizes from the Organization of American Historians (including the 2022 Binkley-Stephenson Prize for the best article in the JAH), the American Society of Ethnohistory, and the Association of Nineteenth-Century Studies.

Her research has been generously supported by a variety of associations, including the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the Royal Historical Society, the American Society for Ethnohistory, and the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford University.

Recent Publications: Jane Dinwoodie, “Evading Indian Removal in the American South,” Journal of American History, Volume 108, Issue 1 (June 2021), 17-41.

Jane Dinwoodie, “The Long War: Sustaining Indigenous Communities and Contesting Sovereignties in the Civil War South” in Frank Towers and Jewel Spangler (eds.), Remaking North American Sovereignty: Towards a Continental History of State Transformation in the 1860s (New York: Fordham University Press, 2020)

Expertise by Topic: American Founding Era, Colonialism, Indigenous Peoples, Migration & Immigration