Coleman Sherry

Coleman Sherry, from Portland, Oregon, is pursuing a JD at Stanford Law School. He graduated summa cum laude from Columbia College in 2021 with a bachelor’s degree in history. Coleman is interested in modern history, environmental policy, and public institutions, and hopes to work in government or public interest environmental law. He spent four years working on the Obama Presidency Oral History project at Incite, an interdisciplinary institute at Columbia University. His senior thesis explored the role of phrenology in the popular coverage of large corporations in the United States around the turn of the 20th century, and it received the Garrett Mattingly Prize and the Carl B. Boyer Memorial Prize in the History of Science.