Colin Calloway

Dartmouth College

Colin Calloway is the John Kimball, Jr. 1943 Professor of History and Professor of Native American Studies at Dartmouth College. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Leeds in England. After moving to the United States, he taught high school in Springfield, Vermont, served for two years as associate director and editor of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian at the Newberry Library in Chicago, and taught for seven years at the University of Wyoming. In 2011, Calloway received the American Indian History Lifetime Achievement Award at the Western History Association Conference. The award is given to an individual for “helping Native American students and advancing the study of American Indian history.” Calloway is the author of many books on Native American history.

Calloway’s videos are used in these Choices Program curriculum units:
The Civil War and the Meaning of Liberty
We the People: A New Nation
Westward Expansion: A New History