Jon Coleman

Assistant Professor

Field
American History

Profile
Jon Coleman grew up in Boulder, Colorado where he received both his B.A. and M.A. in history from the University of Colorado. He received his Ph.D. at Yale University. Coleman has lived in Indiana for the past seven years, and 2006-7 will be his third year at Notre Dame. He has a basset hound named Oscar, two kids, and a spouse who teaches history at Indiana University and Purdue University at Indianapolis.

Current Project
Coleman is currently writing a biography of Hugh Glass, an American mountain man famous for nearly being eaten by a grizzly bear in 1823.

Teaching Interests
Early American history, environmental history, and the history of the American West.

Recent Publications 
Vicious: Wolves and Men in America. (Yale University Press, 2004). Awarded the W. Turrentine Jackson Prize and John H. Dunning Prize.
                                                                                                             
“Two by Two: Animals in American History,” Reviews in American History, 33 (4): 481-92.

“Animal Last Stands: Empathy and Extinction in the American West,” Montana, The Magazine of Western History, 55 (Autumn 2005): 2-13.

“The Men in McArthur’s Bar: The Cultural Significance of the Margins,” Western Historical Quarterly 31 (Spring 2000): 47-65.

Contact
Office: 458 Decio Faculty Hall
Phone: (574) 631-5071
Email: jcolema2@nd.edu
Office Hours: M & W 10:00-11:00