People

Alan Spitzer

Alan Spitzer

Title/Position
Professor Emeritus
Alan Spitzer is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Iowa.
Allen Steinberg

Allen Steinberg

Title/Position
Associate Professor Emeritus
Allen Steinberg, associate professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Iowa, taught on the social history of law and politics. His more specific interests are the evolution of urban criminal justice systems and the relationship between people and the state, broadly defined.
Landon Storrs

Landon Storrs

Title/Position
Professor
Honors Director, History
Landon Storrs specializes in twentieth-century U.S. social and political history, particularly in the history of women, social movements, and social policy.
Shelton Stromquist

H. Shelton Stromquist

Title/Position
Professor Emeritus
Shelton Stromquist, professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Iowa, works primarily in the fields of U.S. labor and social history, though his research and teaching have taken a comparative and global turn in the last few years.
Katherine Tachau

Katherine H. Tachau

Title/Position
Professor Emerita
Katherine Tachau, professor emerita, was a member of the History Department at the University of Iowa from 1985 until her retirement in 2019.
David Tucker

David Tucker

Title/Position
Adjunct Assistant Professor
David Tucker is an adjunct assistant professor of history at the University of Iowa.
Tyler Tumblety

Tyler Tumblety

Title/Position
Doctoral Student
Tyler Tumblety is a doctoral student in the History Department at the University of Iowa. His area of interest is early American history.
Valle, Emiliano

Emiliano Valle

Title/Position
Doctoral Student
Ford Fellow and Lulu Merle Johnson Fellow
Emiliano Valle is a doctoral student in the History Department at the University of Iowa with an interest in public health and western intervention in Latin America.
Stephen Vlastos

Stephen Vlastos

Title/Position
Professor Emeritus
Stephen Vlastos, professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Iowa, taught Japanese history. His major field of research has been early modern and modern rural social movements and political economy.
Stephen Warren

Stephen Warren

Title/Position
Professor of History
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.
Katherine Weiner

Katherine Weiner

Title/Position
Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Jessica Werneke

Jessica Werneke

Title/Position
Visiting Assistant Professor
Jessica Werneke is a visiting assistant professor of history at the University of Iowa and former assistant professor of comparative humanities at Habib University in Karachi, Pakistan.
Gregory Wickenkamp

Gregory Wickenkamp

Title/Position
Doctoral Student
Greg Wickenkamp is a doctoral student in the Department of History at the University of Iowa. His current work builds on curiosities that arose over more than a decade of K-16 social studies education, particularly around history's relationship to identity, race, and social justice.
Nick Yablon

Nick Yablon

Title/Position
Director of Undergraduate Studies
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.
Beth Yale

Elizabeth Yale

Title/Position
Assistant Professor
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
Yost, John

John Yost

Title/Position
Doctoral Candidate
John Yost is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of Iowa with an interest in medieval Europe.
Cory Young portrait

Cory James Young

Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Dr. Cory James Young is a historian of abolition and slavery in the American North.