Arwin D. Smallwood is an American historian. He chairs the history department at North Carolina A&T and has written about U.S. history.[1] [2] [3] He was a professor at Bradley University in the 1990s, Brandeis University from 2001 to 2003 and was then a professor at the University of Memphis for years.
He grew up in Bertie County, North Carolina and participated in the Upward Bound program.[4] He studied at North Carolina Central University and Ohio State University. He studied and photographed the Indian Woods of Bertie County where the first reservation was established to hold Native Americans.[5] East Carolina University has a collection of his papers documenting Bertie County for his book on the area.[6]
He was inducted into the African American Hall of Fame Museum in Peoria, Illinois. He is a member of Pi Gamma Mu.[7]