• PhD, History, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2018
• MA, Heritage Resources, Northwestern State University, 2011
• MS, Labor Studies, The University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2003
• BA, Anthropology and History, The University of New Orleans, 2001

Robert Caldwell is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw-Apache Community of Ebarb Louisiana. His first book, Choctaw-Apache Foodways received an award from the Louisiana Folklife Commission, and he was named culture bearer. He is co-founder of the HoMinti Society, a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching his tribe’s traditional culture.  He enjoys playing Kabutcha Toli (southeastern stickball) and is honored to be a guest in Haudenosaunee lands. 

Dr. Caldwell’s longstanding research projects consist of three categories: maps and Native representation; ethnohistorical research on behalf of my own tribal community, and Native migration to the near Southwest. 

• “Lewis and Clark Expedition” and “John Wesley Powell,” entries in History of Cartography, Vol. 5: The Cartography in the Nineteenth Century, ed. Roger J.P. Kain. University of Chicago Press, Forthcoming. 
• “Filé Man: Colson’s Creole-Indigenous Continuity” Louisiana Creole Peoplehood: Afro-Indigeneity and Community. Eds. Rain Prud’homme-Cranford, Andrew Jolivétte, and Darryl Barthé. University of Washington Press, 2021. 
• “Persistence on the Edge: The Choctaw-Apache Community of Ebarb,” Native South. Vol. 19, 2020. 
• “Choctaw Frontier: Incursions and settlement in Northwest Louisiana and East Texas, 1760-1836,” North Louisiana History Fall 2020. 

• PI– Building a Haudenosaunee archive and resource collection at UB: Centering Haudenosaunee Partnerships and Data Sovereignty (Planning Grant). Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Public Knowledge Program, 2021
• CoPI - Establishing an Indigenous Studies Department at University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2019
• UB Inclusive Excellence Faculty Fellowship, 2017-2019.
• Best First Book Prize - Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA), 2017  

• Gender, Sexuality, Indigeneity 
• Honoring Indigenous Women
  
• Indigenous Knowledge and Methodology
• Onkwehonwe Sovereignty and Nation Building
  
• Critical Readings in Indigenous Scholarship
• American Indian Resistance
  
• Six Nations Peoples in Contemporary Times
• Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainable Futures 

• Interim Co-Director, UB Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program
• Member, Office of the President, University Police Advisory Committee
• Member, Presidents Advisory Council on Race: Inclusive Space Subcommittee
• Co-founder/Principal Coordinator, UB Haudenosaunee Native America Studies Research Workshop
• Member, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association