Donald G. Nieman

Donald G. Nieman is provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Binghamton University—State University of New York. A historian who specializes in the history of law and race in the U.S., he is the author or editor of six books, including Promises to Keep: African Americans and the Constitutional Order, 1776 to the Present, which has been called the first Afro-centric history of the U.S. Constitution. A native of Iowa, he is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Drake University and earned his Ph.D. at Rice University. Nieman has held faculty positions at Kansas State University, Hunter College and Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Clemson University, Bowling Green State University, and Binghamton University. He served as dean of arts & sciences at Bowling Green State University for eight years and as dean of Harpur College of Arts & Sciences at Binghamton for four years before becoming Binghamton’s provost in 2012. He lives in Vestal, NY with his wife, Leigh Ann Wheeler, a professor of history, and their son, Brady Wheeler-Nieman.