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Texas State University

Dr. Sarah Ross Coleman

  • Associate Professor - History
  • TMH 225
  • tel:+15122452142
  • src202@txstate.edu
  • www.sarahrcoleman.com
Portrait of Dr. Sarah Ross Coleman
  • Grants
  • Scholarly/Creative work
  • Awards
  • Service

Featured grants

  • Coleman, Sarah Ross. Congressional Research Grant, Dirksen Congressional Center, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $2354. (Submitted: October 2024, Funded: July 2025 - Present). Grant.
  • Coleman, Sarah Ross. Research Enhancement Program, Texas State University, $8000. (Submitted: October 2024, Funded: May 2025 - Present). Grant.
  • Coleman, Sarah Ross. John K. Hulston Scholarship, Truman Library Foundation, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $2500. (Funded: May 15, 2025 - August 2026). Grant.

Featured scholarly/creative works

  • Coleman, S. R. (2021). The Walls Within: The Politics of Immigration in Modern America. Princeton, NJ, USA: Princeton University Press. Retrieved from https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691180281/the-walls-within
  • Coleman, S. R. (2018). A Promise Unfulfilled, An Imperfect Legacy: Obama and Immigration Policy. In The Presidency of Barack Obama: A First Historical Assessment. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.23943/9781400889556-014
  • Coleman, S. R. (2022, July). Review of the Deportation Express. Southwestern Historical Quarterly. Texas State Historical Association.
  • Coleman, S. R. (2022, January 1). Immigration since 1965. The American Historian. Bloomington, Indiana, United States: Organization of American History.
  • Coleman, S. R. (2021, June 1). Biden will allow undocumented students to access pandemic relief. Washington Post.

Featured awards

  • Award / Honor Nominee: Gustave O. Arlt Award in Humanitites, Council of Graduate Schools. January 19, 2023
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Achivement Award for Excellence, College Of Liberal Arts, Texas State University. August 2022
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize, Western Association of Women Historians. April 2022
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Theodore Saloutos Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society. April 2, 2022
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Outstanding Dissertation Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society. April 2017

Featured service activities

  1. Member

    Graduate Studies Commitee

    July 2023 - Present
  2. Chair

    Theodore Saloutos Book Award Committee, Immigration and Ethnic HIstory Society

    July 2022 - July 2025
  3. Member

    Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize Committee, Western Association of Women Historians

    September 2022 - September 2024
  4. Member

    University Humanities Research Excellence Award Committee

    May 2024 - May 2024
  5. Member

    Library Committee

    August 2021 - 2022
  6. Member

    Nominations Commitee

    January 2019 - July 2021
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