People
Pat Goodwin
Title/Position
Departmental Administrator
Pat Goodwin is the Departmental Administrator for the History Department at the University of Iowa. Growing up in southeast Iowa, being a Hawkeye and going to the University of Iowa was always her plan.
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
Erin Anderson
Title/Position
Doctoral Candidate
Erin Anderson is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at the University of Iowa. Her area of expertise is in material culture.
Ari Ariel
Title/Position
Associate Professor of Instruction, 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.
Douglas Baynton
Title/Position
Professor Emeritus
Doug Baynton is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Iowa. His primary interest is the history of disability in the United States. He retired from the university in 2019.
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
Constance H. Berman
Title/Position
Professor Emerita
Constance Hoffman Berman is a professor emerita in the Department of History at the University of Iowa. Professor Berman retired in 2016 but remains an active researcher.
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.
Samuel Boucher
Title/Position
Doctoral Candidate
Samuel Boucher is a doctoral candidate in History at the University of Iowa. His area of expertise is Mennonites in Latin American History.
T. Dwight Bozeman
Title/Position
Professor Emeritus
Jointly appointed in the Departments of History and Religious Studies at the University of Iowa, Dwight Bozeman began his career in the 1970s. Dwight retired from the university following the spring 2008 semester.
Margaret Brandes
Title/Position
Doctoral Student
Margaret Brandes is a PhD student in the History Department at the University of Iowa. Research areas include: Indian Ocean World, Middle East, North Africa, East Africa.
Jo Butterfield
Title/Position
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Jo Butterfield is an adjunct assistant professor of history at the University of Iowa. Her research examines the creation of modern human rights standards. Research areas include: United States in the World, Women and Gender, Human Rights.
Nathan Chaplin
Title/Position
Doctoral Candidate
Nathan Chaplin is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at the University of Iowa. His area of expertise is 19th Century U.S. History.
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
Nyaradzai Chisaka
Title/Position
Doctoral Candidate
Nyaradzai Chisaka is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at the University of Iowa. Her area of expertise is gender and health.
Ashley Dorn
Title/Position
Doctoral Candidate
Ashley Dorn is a doctoral candidate studying migrant and transient workers in the Midwest during the twentieth century.
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.
Laurence Florio-Roberts
Title/Position
Doctoral Student
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
Paul R. Greenough
Title/Position
Professor Emeritus
Paul Greenough is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Iowa. His areas of interest include the history of global public health, the social and environmental history of India and the cultural, material and political relationships between India and other parts of the world during the late imperial period (c.1800-1960), and the follow-on consequences of migration out of India in the age of globalization.
Adrian Gronseth
Title/Position
Graduate Student
Adrian Gronseth is a graduate student in the History Department at the University of Iowa.
Sarah Hanley
Title/Position
Professor Emerita
Sarah Hanley is a professor emerita in the Department of History at the University of Iowa and has principally been interested in the evolution of law, gender and the state in early modern and modern Europe. She retired from the university following the spring 2008 semester.
Haseeb Haroon
Title/Position
Doctoral Student
Haseeb Haroon is a doctoral student in the History Department at the University of Iowa. His area of interest is 20th Century American Comparative Racial/Religious History.
Anthony Haughton, Sr.
Title/Position
Doctoral Candidate
Anthony Haughton, Sr. is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at the University of Iowa. His areas of interest include African American history and carceral studies.
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.
Chi Fung "Thomas" Ho
Title/Position
Doctoral Candidate
Thomas Ho is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at the University of Iowa. His areas of interest include U.S. history and U.S.-East Asian relations.
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
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