Dr. John Coleman is a native Midwesterner, born in Indiana and raised in Illinois.  He received his undergraduate education at Eastern Illinois University and his masters and doctorate from the University of Iowa.  He joined the  Southeast faculty in 1967 and retired in 2001 after teaching courses in Colonial America, the New American Republic, American Intellectual History, and Missouri History.  His research interests include antebellum dietary reform, the Red Scares of the twentieth century, the revivals of Billy Sunday, and changing attitudes toward enthusiasm in American culture.  John serves as a volunteer in the archives working with the papers of Southeast's presidents and the photographic history of the university.