People

Pat Goodwin

Pat Goodwin

Title/Position
Departmental Administrator
Pat Goodwin is the Departmental Administrator for the History Department at the University of Iowa.
Colin Gordon

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
Anderson Erin

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

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.
Doug Baynton

Douglas Baynton

Title/Position
Professor Emeritus
Doug Baynton is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Iowa. He retired from the university in 2019.
Meriam Belli

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 Berman

Constance H. Berman

Title/Position
Professor Emerita
Constance Hoffman Berman is a professor emerita in the Department of History at the University of Iowa.
Shane Bobrycki

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 Bond

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.
Boucher, Sam

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.
Dwight Bozeman

T. Dwight Bozeman

Title/Position
Professor Emeritus
Dwight Bozeman was jointly appointed in the Departments of History and Religious Studies. He retired following the spring 2008 semester.
Margaret Brandes

Margaret Brandes

Title/Position
Doctoral Student
Margaret Brandes is a PhD student in the History Department. Research areas include: Indian Ocean World, Middle East, North Africa, East Africa.
Jo Butterfield

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.
Chaplin, Nathan

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

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
Nyari Chisaka

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 Dorn2

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

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

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

Laurence Florio-Roberts

Title/Position
Doctoral Student
James Giblin

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 Greenough

Paul R. Greenough

Title/Position
Professor Emeritus
Paul Greenough is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Iowa.
Adrian Gronseth

Adrian Gronseth

Title/Position
Graduate Student
Adrian Gronseth is a graduate student in the History Department at the University of Iowa.
Sarah Hanley

Sarah Hanley

Title/Position
Professor Emerita
Sarah Hanley is a professor emerita in the Department of History at the University of Iowa. She retired from the university following the spring 2008 semester.
Haseeb Haroon

Haseeb Haroon

Title/Position
Doctoral Student
Haseeb Haroon is a doctoral student in the History Department. His area of interest is 20th Century American Comparative Racial/Religious History.
Anthony Haughton, Sr.

Anthony Haughton, Sr.

Title/Position
Doctoral Candidate
Anthony Haughton, Sr., a doctoral candidate in the History Department at the University of Iowa, has African American history and carceral studies as areas of interest.
Lisa Heineman

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 Hernandez

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.
Thomas Fung

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 portrait

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