Dr. Coleman’s areas of inquiry focus on the social construction of science in mainstream discourse and the effects of framing on biopolitical policies that impact American Indian communities, which is distilled in new book, “Environmental Clashes on Native American Lands” (Palgrave-Springer press, 2020). She has held fellowships with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. She was awarded the Fulbright-Canada Jarislowsky Foundation Visiting Research Chair in Aboriginal Studies in 2019, when she worked with faculty and Indigenous communities in British Columbia.