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Colin Gordon
Title/Position
Department Chair
Professor
Colin Gordon writes on the history of American public policy and political economy. He is a senior research consultant at Common Good Iowa for which he has written or co-written reports on health coverage, economic development, and wages and working conditions.
Research areas include: 20th Century U.S. History, American Public Policy, American Political Economy, American Urban History
Ari Ariel
Title/Position
Associate Professor, History and International Studies
Director of International Studies
Ari Ariel is a historian of the modern Middle East, with a particular focus on Jewish communities in the Arab world and Mizrahi communities in Israel. His interests include ethnic, national, and religious identities, migration, and foodways.
Research areas include Modern Middle East and Jewish History.
Meriam N. Belli
Title/Position
Associate Professor
Meriam Belli writes on the social and cultural history of the Middle East. At the University of Iowa, she is teaching courses on national, religious, and gender identities in Southwest Asia and North Africa; the history of the modern Middle East; and Urban Space and Colonial Architecture.
Research areas include: Modern Middle East, Social and Cultural History of the Arab Middle East, Transnational History of Death and Dying, Oral History and Memory, Boundaries and Mobility
Shane Bobrycki
Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Shane Bobrycki is a historian of medieval Europe and the Mediterranean, with a special interest in the economic, demographic, and cultural history of the early medieval period (c. 300–1100). Research areas include: Middle Ages, Late Antiquity, Economic History, Medieval Auxiliary Sciences, Demography, Peasants
Sarah E. Bond
Title/Position
Associate Professor
Sarah E. Bond is an associate professor in the History Department at the University of Iowa. She is interested in late Roman history, epigraphy, late antique law, Roman topography and GIS, Digital Humanities, and the socio-legal experience of ancient marginal peoples.
Shuang Chen
Title/Position
Associate Professor
Shuang Chen joined the Department of History at the University of Iowa in 2010. As a historian of late imperial and modern China, her research interest encompasses social, economic, and political history, with an emphasis on exploring how the interplay of state and local institutions over the long term shaped modern Chinese society. Research areas include: History of Late Imperial and Modern China, Social and Economic History, Social Stratification, Historical Demography, Chinese Law and Society
Glenn Ehrstine
Title/Position
Associate Professor
Glenn Ehrstine is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Iowa. He has a secondary appointment in the German Department. Research areas include: Literature, Religion, and Politics in Medieval and Early Modern Germany
Mariola Espinosa
Title/Position
Associate Professor
Mariola Espinosa is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Iowa and affiliated faculty in the in the Program in Bioethics and Humanities at the Carver College of Medicine. Her interests are in the history of medicine and public health in the Caribbean and Latin America, as well as in histories of empire and disease, race and medicine, and transnational medical practices.
James L. Giblin
Title/Position
Professor
James Giblin has been a member of the History Department since 1986. His primary research interest is Tanzania and East Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Research areas include African History, 19th-20th Century Tanzania and East Africa, Social History of Africa, Political History of Post-Colonial Tanzania, History of Health and Healing in Africa
Elizabeth Heineman
Title/Position
Professor
Lisa Heineman has been at the University of Iowa since 1999 and teaches courses in Germany and Europe, gender and sexuality, and human rights. Her classes are sites of hands-on work, creative thinking, and collaborative discovery. Research areas include Modern Germany and Europe, Gender and Sexuality, Historical Memory, Human Rights and Atrocity, Modern Europe.
Viridiana Hernández Fernández
Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Viridiana Hernández is a historian of modern Latin America, specializing in the 20th-century environmental history of Mexico.
Michaela Hoenicke Moore
Title/Position
Associate Professor
Michaela Hoenicke Moore is an Associate Professor in the History Department at the University of Iowa. At the center of her research lie two broad themes addressing the cultural underpinnings of international relations and liberal democracy respectively. She is interested in the relationship between the political culture of the United States and its foreign policy, on the one hand, and in European responses to ‘America’ as a democracy and a world power on the other. Research areas include: United States in the World, International Relations, European and U.S. History, Political Culture of the U.S. and its Foreign Policy
Ashley Howard
Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Ashley Howard joined the University of Iowa faculty in 2019 coming from Loyola University, New Orleans. Her research interests include African Americans in the Midwest; the intersection between race, class, and gender; and the global history of racial violence.
Tom Arne Midtrød
Title/Position
Director of Graduate Studies, History Department
Associate Professor
Tom Arne Midtrød joined the Department of History in the Fall 2009. His research focuses on North American Indians from first contact with Europeans through the era of the American Revolution.
Rosemary Moore
Title/Position
Distinguished Associate Professor of Instruction
Rosemary Moore joined the History Department in 2003. She holds a joint appointment with the Classics Department. Her major research interests focus on the social dynamics between various ranks of the Roman military, and the military and Roman society as a whole.
Lina-Maria Murillo
Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Dr. Lina-Maria Murillo is an Assistant Professor in History and Gender, Women's & Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa. She earned a PhD in Borderlands History at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) in 2016. Her research interests include borderlands, women's health and reproductive justice, Latina/o/x studies, and social justice movements.
Alyssa Park
Title/Position
Associate Professor
Honors Director, History
Alyssa Park is a historian of modern Korea. Her research interests include borderlands, transnational migration, and empire in East Asia, including Russia.
R. Tyler Priest
Title/Position
Associate Professor of History and Geography
Tyler Priest has a joint appointment in the Departments of History, where he is an Associate Professor, and Geographical and Sustainability Sciences, where he teaches a course on U.S. Energy Policy and assists in overseeing the Environmental Policy and Planning program. His primary research interests are in the history of oil, energy, energy policy, globalization, and business, as well as public history. 20th Century U.S. history
Energy and Environmental History
Energy Policy
History of Business and Technology
Public History
Robert Rouphail
Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Dr. Rouphail is a historian of modern Africa and the Indian Ocean and is broadly interested in histories of the environment, empire, and decolonization in the Afro-Asian World.
Landon Storrs
Title/Position
Professor
Landon Storrs specializes in twentieth-century U.S. social and political history, particularly in the history of women, social movements, and social policy.
Gregory Valdespino
Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Gregory Valdespino specializes in the history of modern Europe and Africa, with a particular in welfare, domesticity, urbanization, migration, and imperialism in the Francophone world.
Stephen Warren
Title/Position
Professor
Program Coordinator, Native American and Indigenous Studies
As both a teacher and a scholar, Stephen Warren emphasizes that the past is never safely historical. In the classes he teaches, he asks his students to view academic research with a fresh perspective; as avenues for serving the world rather than knowledge that is peculiar and limited to the college classroom. Research areas include: Research areas include: American Indian Histories and Cultures, Ethno-Historical Methods, Iowa and Midwestern History, Community-Engaged Scholarship.
Nick Yablon
Title/Position
Professor
Nick Yablon earned a BA in history from the University of Birmingham (England) and a PhD in history from the University of Chicago. His area of expertise is nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century U.S. cultural history, with a research focus on urban history, memory and monument studies, the built environment, material culture, photography, and the changing experiences of space and time in modernity.
Elizabeth Yale
Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Elizabeth Yale is a historian of science and the book in Britain and Europe. Dr. Yale earned a PhD in the History of Science at Harvard University and taught at Western Carolina University and Harvard before coming to Iowa. Research areas include: History of Science and Medicine, History of the Book, Early Modern Europe, British History.
Cory James Young
Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Cory James Young is a scholar of abolition and slavery in the American North whose research engages African American, early United States, and legal histories. Trained as a social historian, he is interested in how historically marginalized people effected change in their communities.