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.