Robert Caldwell will offer his dissertation “Indians in Their Proper Place: Culture Areas, Linguistic Stocks, and the Genealogy of a Map” on October 24 from 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. on an internet video hosted by the School for Advanced Research.

Caldwell is a postdoctoral research fellow at the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Arlington. He graduated from the Transatlantic History Doctoral Program from the Department of History and Geography, completing all coursework with a 4.0 and mastered comprehensive examinations in the fields of migration history, revolutions, cartographic history, and the history of exploration and “discovery.” He is also Assistant Professor of the School of Arts and Sciences at SOWELA Technical Community College and SAR’s 2020 Katrin H. Lamon fellow.

The dissertation, entitled “Indians in their Proper Place: Culture Areas, Linguistic Stocks, and the Genealogy of a Map” explores 150 years of thematic maps of American Indian homelands, languages, and culture.

 

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