People

Faculty

Ari Ariel
Associate Professor of Instruction in History and International Studies; Director of International Studies
ari-ariel@uiowa.edu
- Modern Middle East
- Jewish History
Meriam N. Belli
Associate Professor
meriam-belli@uiowa.edu
- History of the 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
Sarah E. Bond
Associate Professor
sarah-bond@uiowa.edu
- Late Roman history, epigraphy, and late antique law
- Roman topography and GIS
- Digital Humanities
Shuang Chen
Associate Professor
shuang-chen@uiowa.edu
- History of late imperial and modern China
- Social and economic history
- Social stratification
- Historical demography
- Chinese law and society
Glenn Ehrstine
Associate Professor
glenn-ehrstine@uiowa.edu
- Literature, religion, and politics in medieval and early modern Germany
- Secondary appointment in History
Mariola Espinosa
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
mariola-espinosa@uiowa.edu
- Public Health and Medicine
- Empire in the Caribbean
- Latin America
James L. Giblin
Professor
james-giblin@uiowa.edu
- 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
Colin Gordon
Professor and Department Chair
colin-gordon@uiowa.edu
- 20th century U.S. history
- American public policy
- American political economy
- American urban history
Elizabeth Heineman
Professor
elizabeth-heineman@uiowa.edu
- Modern Germany and Europe
- Gender and Sexuality
- Historical memory
- Human Rights and Atrocity
Viridiana Hernández Fernández
Assistant Professor
viridiana-hernandez@uiowa.edu
- Modern Latin America
- 20th-Century Environmental History of Mexico
Michaela Hoenicke Moore
Associate Professor
michaela-hoenicke-moore@uiowa.edu
- United States in the World
- International relations
- European and U.S. history
- Political culture of the U.S. and its foreign policy
Ashley Howard
Assistant Professor
ashley-howard@uiowa.edu
- African Americans in the Midwest
- Intersection between race, class, and gender
- Global history of racial violence
Tom Arne Midtrød
Associate Professor
tom-midtrod@uiowa.edu
- Early North America
- North American Indians
- Atlantic World
Rosemary Moore
Distinguished Associate Professor of Instruction
rosemary-moore@uiowa.edu
- Ancient history
- Roman military, social dynamics between ranks
- Roman society
- Development of military discipline
- Influence of civilian conduct on military authority and behavior
Lina-Maria Murillo
Assistant Professor
lina-murillo@uiowa.edu
- History
- Borderlands
- Women's Health and Reproduction
- Reproductive Justice
- Latina/Latino/Latinx
- Social Justice Movements
Alyssa Park
Associate Professor
alyssa-park@uiowa.edu
- Modern Korean History
R. Tyler Priest
Associate Professor of History and Geography, and History Honors Director
tyler-priest@uiowa.edu
- 20th Century U.S. History
- Energy and Environmental History
- Energy Policy
- History of Business and Technology
- Public History
Robert Rouphail
Assistant Professor
robert-rouphail@uiowa.edu
- Global Environmental History
- Modern Africa & the Western Indian Ocean
- Disaster Studies
- Afro-Asia/Decolonization
Landon Storrs
Professor
landon-storrs@uiowa.edu
- 20th Century U.S. Social and Political History
Stephen Warren
Professor of History and Program Coordinator, Native American and Indigenous Studies
stephen-warren@uiowa.edu
- American Indian histories and cultures
- Ethno-historical methods
- Iowa and Midwestern history
- Community-Engaged Scholarship
Nick Yablon
Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
nick-yablon@uiowa.edu
- Nineteenth-century US cultural and urban history, visual culture, memory
Elizabeth Yale
Assistant Professor
elizabeth-yale@uiowa.edu
- History of Science and Medicine
- History of the Book
- Early Modern Europe
- British History
Cory James Young
Assistant Professor
cory-young@uiowa.edu
- Abolition and Slavery
- African American Studies
- The Early American Republic
- Legal History

Visiting Faculty

Rachael Pasierowska
Visiting Assistant Professor
rachael-pasierowska@uiowa.edu
- Slavery and Labor
- 19th-Century Atlantic world
Jessica Werneke
Visiting Assistant Professor
jessica-werneke@uiowa.edu
- Modern European History
- Russian and Soviet Visual Culture

Adjunct Faculty

Jo Butterfield
Adjunct Assistant Professor
jo-butterfield@uiowa.edu
- The United States in the World
- Women and Gender, Human Rights
John McKerley
Adjunct Assistant Professor
john-mckerley@uiowa.edu
- Oral and Public History
- US Labor and Working-Class History
- Immigration
David Tucker
Adjunct Assistant Professor
david-tucker@uiowa.edu
- Asian History (Japan, China)

Emeritus Faculty

Douglas Baynton
Professor Emeritus
douglas-baynton@uiowa.edu
- American Cultural History
- History of Disability
- American Sign Language
Constance H. Berman
Professor Emerita
constance-berman@uiowa.edu
- Medieval Social, Economic, Religious, and Women's History (France and Italy)
T. Dwight Bozeman
Professor Emeritus
tdbozeman@gmail.com
- American Religious History
Paul R. Greenough
Professor Emeritus
paul-greenough@uiowa.edu
- History of Modern India, Environmental and Global Health History
Sarah Hanley
Professor Emerita
sarah-hanley@uiowa.edu
- Early Modern & Modern France
- Politics, Society, & Gender
- Law & Litigation
Kathleen Kamerick
Lecturer (Retired)
kathleen-kamerick@uiowa.edu
- Medieval & Early Modern European History
- History of the Book
- Women's History
Linda K. Kerber
May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts and Professor of History Emerita, Lecturer in Law
linda-kerber@uiowa.edu
- U.S. Women's History
- Legal and Intellectual History
- U.S. Early Republic
Michael E. Moore
Associate Professor Emeritus
michael-e-moore@uiowa.edu
- Medieval and European history
- History of the Church
- Papal history
- Medieval Canon Law
- Theory and Practice of Interpretation (Philology and Hermeneutics)
- History of Ideas
- Late Medieval Intellectual history
Jaroslaw Pelenski
Professor Emeritus
- Russian, Soviet, and East Central European History
Malcolm J. Rohrbough
Professor Emeritus
malcolm-rohrbough@uiowa.edu
- History of the American West
David Schoenbaum
Professor Emeritus
david-schoenbaum@uiowa.edu
- German and Military History
- 19th & 20th Century Europe
- International Relations
- Social History of Music & The Violin
Leslie A. Schwalm
Professor Emeritus
leslie-schwalm@uiowa.edu
- Slavery (U.S. and Comparative)
- Women's history
- 19th century U.S. history
- History of Race
- Civil War and Reconstruction
Alan Spitzer
Professor Emeritus
- French Intellectual History
Allen Steinberg
Associate Professor Emeritus
allen-steinberg@uiowa.edu
- American Social, Legal, & Urban History
- Cultural Conflict in Modern America
H. Shelton Stromquist
Professor Emeritus
shelton-stromquist@uiowa.edu
- American, Social, and Labor History
Katherine H. Tachau
Professor Emerita
katherine-tachau@uiowa.edu
- Medieval intellectual history
- History of science and philosophy
- Medieval Universities
- Medieval Latin Paleography and Codicology
- History of medieval manuscript art and illumination
Stephen Vlastos
Professor Emeritus
stephen-vlastos@uiowa.edu
- Modern Japanese history
- Agrarian political economy during the Tokugawa and Meiji periods
- Japanese culture, traditions and modernity
- Japan and U.S. Relations
- International relations in Asia Pacific region

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