Dr. Jane Dinwoodie

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Jane Ushiyama Dinwoodie is a Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century American History at University College London, where she researches complex narratives surrounding the Indian removal era in the United States. Her current work focuses on a book titled 'Remain: Indian Non-Removal in the Nineteenth-Century American South,' which investigates the multifaceted efforts to forcibly relocate Eastern Indigenous nations and the successful resistance by many communities. With a DPhil in History from the University of Oxford, completed in 2017, Jane has engaged in academic work supported by various prestigious organizations, including the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Royal Historical Society. Her notable publications include her contributions to the 'Journal of American History' and the edited volume 'Remaking North American Sovereignty.' Jane also teaches undergraduate seminar modules on American borderlands and contested visions of early United States history, along with supervising PhD projects related to Indian removals. Previously, she served as a Research Fellow at Jesus College, University of Cambridge, and has been involved with the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Research Interests

Courses

American Borderlands: Land and Power in America’s Margins, c.1763-1900 Disunited States: Contested Visions of America, 1775-1860 Dispossessing Nations: Indian Removals in American History Nations, Empires, Homelands: Key Themes in Nineteenth-Century Native American History