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.

Alan Spitzer is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Iowa.

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 specializes in twentieth-century U.S. social and political history, particularly in the history of women, social movements, and social policy.

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, professor emerita, was a member of the History Department at the University of Iowa from 1985 until her retirement in 2019.

David Tucker is an adjunct assistant professor of history at the University of Iowa.

Tyler Tumblety is a doctoral student in the History Department at the University of Iowa. His area of interest is early American history.

Gregory Valdespino specializes in the history of modern Europe and Africa, with a particular in welfare, domesticity, urbanization, migration, and imperialism in the Francophone world.

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, 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.

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. Research areas include: Research areas include: American Indian Histories and Cultures, Ethno-Historical Methods, Iowa and Midwestern History, Community-Engaged Scholarship.

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.

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 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.

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. Research areas include: History of Science and Medicine, History of the Book, Early Modern Europe, British History.

John Yost is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of Iowa with an interest in medieval Europe.

Cory James Young is a scholar of abolition and slavery in the American North whose research engages African American, early United States, and legal histories. Trained as a social historian, he is interested in how historically marginalized people effected change in their communities.