Natalie Inman
Assistant Professor, History,
School of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Office: Memorial Hall 210A
Address: One Cumberland Square, Lebanon, TN 37087
Address: One Cumberland Square, Lebanon, TN 37087
Phone: 615-547-1279
Email: ninman@cumberland.edu
Classes Offered:
US History I, US History II, American Indian History, Women's History, Comparative Empires: British, Russian, and Comanche, Colonial America
Degrees:
B.A. History Honors, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
M.A. Early American History, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Ph.D. Early American History, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Dr. Natalie R. Inman joined Cumberland University in Fall of 2010 after receiving her doctorate from Vanderbilt University where she studied Early American history with Dr. Dan Usner and pursued minor fields in American Business and the Economy as well as Early Modern European social history. Her research emphasis is on the intercultural interaction of American Indians and Anglo-Americans, with particular attention to the role of family and gender in the political and economic negotiation between cultures. Dr. Inman teaches courses on the History of the United States, Women’s/Gender History, Colonial America, and Comparative Empires.
Dr. Inman’s dissertation, entitled “Networks in negotiation: the role of family and kinship in intercultural diplomacy on the Trans-Appalachian frontier, 1680-1840,” argues that kinship networks were central to early Americans’ achievement of socio-economic and political goals. By comparing case studies of Chickasaw, Cherokee, and Anglo-American families, this dissertation shows how very important kinship was to early American life across cultures. This comparison of American Indian and Anglo-American familial strategies illustrates how kinship networks were used similarly to pursue conflicting goals. Dr. Inman is currently revising her dissertation for future publication.
Dr. Inman has also published an article in the Journal of East Tennessee History entitled ““Wealth, Community, & Litigation in Frontier Tennessee: A Study of Tennessee Superior Court Pleadings, 1802-1810” (2004) that investigates how court records depicted the economic and social strategies of early republic Tennesseans.
Dr. Inman has received fellowships from the American Philosophical Society, the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History, the John Carter Brown Library, the Filson Historical Society, the Newberry Library, and Vanderbilt University’s Center for the Americas, Center for Ethics, and College of Arts and Sciences Social Science Dissertation Fellowship. She has presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, and the Tennessee Conference of Historians.