Boulder native Jon T. Coleman will lecture Nov. 5 at the University of Colorado at Boulder on "A Howling Past: How Listening to Wolves Can Change History."
The 6 p.m. lecture in Eaton Humanities Building room 1B50 is free and open to the public. The event is presented by the Center of the American West.
Coleman, a professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, will use history and biology in an attempt to offer a better understanding of the barrier separating humans from animals. In part of his talk, he will compare wolf communication to the grunts, shouts and yelps of both colonists and Indians during their early encounters in New England.
"Jon Coleman is one of the most talented young historians in the country," said history and environmental studies Professor Patricia Limerick, faculty director of the center. "We are proud that CU played a part in his training. His combination of wit and humor with serious and searching thought represents the ideal we strive for in the center's work."
Coleman is the author of "Vicious: Wolves and Men in America" published by Yale University Press in September. The book has been favorably reviewed in The Atlantic Monthly and elsewhere.
Before going on to earn his doctorate at Yale University, Coleman received his bachelor's and master's degrees from CU-Boulder. In 2003, his dissertation about wolves and American history won the Egleston Prize for best dissertation in American history and the Beinecke Prize for the best dissertation in western American history.
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