People

Hugunin, Michael

Michael Hugunin

Title/Position
Doctoral Student
Michael Hugunin is a doctoral student in the History Department at the University of Iowa. His area of interest is Medieval History.
Juliette Jarabek

Juliette Jarabek

Title/Position
Graduate Student
Juliette Jarabek is a graduate student in the History Department at the University of Iowa.
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John Jepsen

Title/Position
Doctoral Candidate
John W. Jepsen is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of Iowa, with research interests in Native American, energy, and public policy history.
Kathleen Kamerick

Kathleen Kamerick

Title/Position
Lecturer (Retired)
Kathleen Kamerick is a retired lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Iowa. Her principal interest is gender and the religious culture of northern Europe in the late Middle Ages.
Colleen Kelley

Colleen Kelley

Title/Position
Senior Academic Advisor
Doctoral Candidate
Colleen Kelley serves as the departmental advisor for all History students who have earned at least 30 semester hours.
Linda Kerber

Linda K. Kerber

Title/Position
Professor Emerita
May Brodbeck Professor in Liberal Arts & Sciences, Professor of History
Lecturer - College of Law
Linda K. Kerber is May Brodbeck Professor in Liberal Arts & Sciences. She is also lecturer emerita in the College of Law.
Amanda Kozar

Amanda Kozar

Title/Position
Doctoral Student
Amanda Kozar is a doctoral student in the History Department at the University of Iowa.
Maddison Kuncl

Maddison Kuncl

Title/Position
Doctoral Student
Maddison Kuncl is a doctoral student in the History Department at the University of Iowa. Her area of interest is 20th century American history with a focus on women's history.
Garrett Lewis

Garrett Lewis

Title/Position
Doctoral Candidate
Garrett T. Lewis is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of Iowa. His research broadly focuses on the social and cultural histories of the New England colonies, as well as the colony of New France.
Jinghan Liu

Jinghan Liu

Title/Position
Doctoral Student
Jinghan Liu is a doctoral student in the History Department at the University of Iowa.
Jennifer Marks

Jennifer Marks

Title/Position
Doctoral Candidate
Jennifer Marks is doctoral candidate in the History Department at the University of Iowa. Her areas of interest include the Gilded Age and Progressive Era American History.
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Ruvarashe Masocha

Title/Position
Doctoral Candidate
Ruvarashe Masocha is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at the University of Iowa. Her area of interest is African History.
John McKerley

John McKerley

Title/Position
Adjunct Assistant Professor
John McKerley is a historian of labor and civil and human rights whose work focuses on oral history methods.
Audrey Messinger

Audrey Messinger

Title/Position
Doctoral Student
Audrey Messinger is a doctoral student in the History Department at the University of Iowa.
Tom Arne Midtrod

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.
Michael Moore

Michael E. Moore

Title/Position
Associate Professor Emeritus
Michael Edward Moore is an associate professor emeritus in the History Department at the University of Iowa. He was a member of the department's Medieval and European contingent.
Rosemary Moore

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

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.
Noah Neiber

Noah Neiber

Title/Position
Doctoral Student
Noah Neiber is a doctoral student in the History Department at the University of Iowa.
Scott Neill

Scott Neill

Title/Position
Doctoral Student
Scott Neill is a doctoral student in the History Department at the University of Iowa. His area of interest includes legal history of England/colonies with a focus on North American borderlands, and North American legal and diplomatic history.
Kathleen O'Neill

Kathleen O'Neill

Title/Position
Graduate Program Coordinator
Alyssa Park

Alyssa Park

Title/Position
Associate Professor
Alyssa Park is a historian of modern Korea. Her research interests include borderlands, transnational migration, and empire in East Asia, including Russia.
Rachael Pasierowska

Rachael Pasierowska

Title/Position
Visiting Assistant Professor
Dr. Rachael L. Pasierowska earned a dual PhD in History at Rice University, Texas, and the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil, specializing in animal and slavery studies.
Jaroslaw Pelenski

Jaroslaw Pelenski

Title/Position
Professor Emeritus
Jaroslaw Pelenski is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Iowa. He retired from the university in 1998.
Caleb Pennington

Caleb Pennington

Title/Position
Doctoral Candidate
Caleb Pennington is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at the University of Iowa. His fields of interest are American environmental history, legal history, American public policy, and African American history.
Tyler Priest

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.
Malcolm Rohrbough

Malcolm J. Rohrbough

Title/Position
Professor Emeritus
Malcolm Rohrbough, professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Iowa, is an authority on the American West, the days of the California gold rush, and the American frontier. He retired from teaching at the university in the spring of 2008.
Robert Rouphail

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.
David Schoenbaum

David Schoenbaum

Title/Position
Professor Emeritus
David Schoenbaum is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Iowa. He retired from teaching at the university in the spring of 2008.
Leslie Schwalm

Leslie A. Schwalm

Title/Position
Professor Emeritus
Leslie Schwalm, professor emeritus, is a historian of gender and race in the nineteenth-century U.S., and her research focuses on slavery, the Civil War, and emancipation. She retired from the University of Iowa in 2022 after holding a joint appointment with the Departments of History and Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies.