Kevin Coleman

Kevin Coleman is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto, with cross-appointments in Latin American Studies. His research and teaching focus on the intersections of capitalism, photography, and Catholicism in 20th-century Latin America, alongside broader explorations of citizenship and historical memory.

• PhD, Indiana University
• MA, University of Maryland Baltimore County
• BA, Northern Arizona University

Coleman's work has been recognized by the American Historical Association and the Canadian Historical Association. A documentary filmmaker, he directed Stolen Photo (2024) and authored A Camera in the Garden of Eden: The Self-Forging of a Banana Republic (2016), which was translated into Spanish (2019). His co-edited works include Capitalism and the Camera (2021) and Coups d’état in Cold War Latin America, 1964-1982 (2024). His research has been funded by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Fulbright-Hayes, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

• 2019 Insight Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Government of Canada
• 2016 Connection Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Government of Canada
• 2015 Connaught New Researcher Award University of Toronto
• 2015 Institutional Grants, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Government of Canada
• 2012 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships American Council of Learned Societies
• 2011 Future Faculty Teaching Fellowship Indiana University
• 2010 Bernardo Mendel Fellowship Indiana University
• 2009 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship
• 2009 Shriver Practical Idealist Award University of Maryland Baltimore County
• 2008 John H. Edwards Fellowship Indiana University
• 2008 Samuel Flagg Bemis Dissertation Research Grants The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR)

Coleman's publications span leading journals such as the Hispanic American Historical Review, Radical History Review, and Photography and Culture. His work interrogates how physical violence manifests in archives and how photography intersects with capitalist exploitation and liberation. He is actively engaged in community initiatives related to urban ecology and native plant conservation in Toronto.