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Danielle Hoskins is a visiting assistant professor of history at the University of Iowa. She earned a BA in history from the University of Iowa (2012), MA in history from the University of Iowa (2015), and PhD in history with a concentration in American women’s political history from the University of Iowa (2023). She also holds a graduate certificate in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies from the University of Iowa (2016).

Dr. Hoskins has taught many historical subjects, but her specialization is primarily on modern American history, including American women in politics and social movements, and issues of gender, citizenship, and public action in 20^th century America. Her courses focus on incorporating historical analysis of primary sources and developing skills in writing and critical thinking. She previously taught as a graduate instructor at the University of Iowa and as an adjunct instructor at Southeastern Community College. 

Dr Hoskins’ research centers on American women in politics and women’s clubs in the American postwar (~1945-1965). Her PhD concentrated on homemakers who were elected to state legislatures in the postwar, having become community leaders and political volunteers at a time when some defined citizenship and American womanhood by active involvement in civic affairs. She is particularly interested in the intersections between citizenship, gender, and collections of material culture, especially in political scrapbooks.

Awards & Service

• Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Fellowship (Fall 2020)
• Consultant, African American Women’s History and Suffragist Project and National History Marker Project, Office on the Status of Women, Iowa Department of Human Rights (2019)
• Louis Pelzer Dissertation Fellowship (2018-2019)
• Lawrence Gelfand Dissertation Fellowship (2018-2019)
• Graduate College Summer Dissertation Fellowship (2018)
• Ann Leger-Anderson Dissertation Fellowship (2017-2018)
• Elizabeth Bennett Ink Dissertation Fellowship (2017-2018)
• Co-President, Graduate History Society, University of Iowa (2015-2016)

Publications and Presentations

• “Women’s Work in Political Parties in the American Postwar: Thankless Tasks and Political Primer,” Benjamin F. Shambaugh Conference, University of Iowa (2023)
• Biographical Sketches, “Biography of Teresa Adams, 1869-1947”; “Biography of Sue M. Wilson Brown, 1877-1941”; “Biography of Fannie Wilson Cooper, 1884-1980”; “Biography of Gertrude Elzora Durden Rush, 1880-1962,” “Biography of Jennie Johnson Shaw Mays, 1890-1937,” The Black Women Suffragists Collection, Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000. (2018, Alexander Street Publishers)
•  “25 Collections for 25 Years: Selections from the Iowa Women’s Archives,” Exhibit Contribution, “Lena Belle Bock Papers” (Fall 2017)
• “‘Look Like a Girl, Think Like a Man, Act Like a Lady, and Work Like a Dog’: Lenabelle Bock, Katherine Falvey, and Scrapbooking the Homemaker Politician, 1958-1965,” Jakobsen Memorial Graduate Conference, University of Iowa (2016)
• “Political Scrapbooks and the Iowa Women’s Archives,” Online Project, “Women and Politics in Iowa,” University of Iowa History Corps (2016)