Historian and Author
Jane Ushiyama Dinwoodie
Jane Ushiyama Dinwoodie is an award-winning historian and author. She received her doctorate in American history from Oxford University and her BA and MPhil from Cambridge University. She is currently completing work on her first book, "We Remain: Indian Non-Removal in the Nineteenth-century American South," which is forthcoming with Yale University Press.
She has researched and taught at Oxford University, the University of Pennsylvania, Cambridge University (as Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Jesus College), and University College London (as University Lecturer in Nineteenth-century American History). Her work has been published in various places, including the Journal of American History, and has won prizes from the Organization of American Historians (including the 2022 Binkley-Stephenson Prize for the best article in the JAH), the American Society of Ethnohistory, and the Association of Nineteenth-Century Studies.
Her research has been generously supported by a variety of associations, including the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the Royal Historical Society, the American Society for Ethnohistory, and the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford University.
Work & Publications
Jane is currently at work on her first book, "We Remain: Indian Non-Removal in the Nineteenth-century American South." This book centres on Indian removal – a wave of federally-sponsored efforts to forcibly relocate Eastern Indigenous nations to lands west of the Mississippi River, which peaked following the Indian Removal Act of 1830 – and the thousands of individuals, families, and communities that successfully avoided it. By ranging across the region and its polities, We Remain tells the story of Indian non-removal in the South as a massive cross-regional phenomenon which affected not only Indigenous Southerners but also American officials, local residents, and continental dynamics of sovereignty, state development, and American empire.
We Remain is forthcoming with Yale University Press.
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Jane Dinwoodie, “Evading Indian Removal in the American South,” Journal of American History, Volume 108, Issue 1 (June 2021), 17-41.
Winner: Organization of American Historians 2022 Binkley-Stephenson Award (for the best article published in the JAH in the preceding calendar year).
Honorable Mention: 2023 Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Emerging Scholars Award.
Jane Dinwoodie, “The Long War: Sustaining Indigenous Communities and Contesting Sovereignties in the Civil War South” in Frank Towers and Jewel Spangler (eds.), Remaking North American Sovereignty: State Transformation in the 1860s (New York: Fordham University Press, 2020).
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