Advisors

Dr. Caleb McDaniel and Dr. Fay Yarbrough

Morgan Bettin-Coleman is a Ph.D. candidate currently working on her dissertation, tentatively titled "The Native Image in the Black Mind: African American Perceptions of Native American Identity in the Long Nineteenth-Century United States." This project explores various groups of African Americans throughout this region to compare their ideas about Native identity, both their own and of others. It also examines how these understandings exist(ed) in public memory in the past and present. Her dissertation engages with important scholarly conversations on Afro-Native interactions, highlighting underrepresented Black viewpoints of these connections.