Inman Named Book Editor for Tennessee Historical Quarterly 

Dr. Natalie Inman has been named the Book Review Editor for the Tennessee Historical Quarterly.  Her chapter entitled, “Militant Families in the American Revolution” is forthcoming in the collection of essays Before the Volunteer State: New Thoughts on Early Tennessee History, 1690-1800, edited by Dr. Kristofer Ray, to be published by the University of Tennessee Press.  She also received a Faculty Summer Research Grant from Cumberland University in 2012.
 
Bio:
Dr. Natalie Inman is an Assistant Professor of History at Cumberland University.  Dr. Inman is in the process of revising her dissertation, entitled “Networks in negotiation: the role of family and kinship in intercultural diplomacy on the Trans-Appalachian frontier, 1680-1840,” which argues, through cross-cultural comparisons between Cherokees, Chickasaws, and Anglo-Americans, that kinship networks were central to early Americans’ achievement of socio-economic and political goals.  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, and the Newberry Library.