Without understanding our past, how can we hope to make sense of the present, let alone try to imagine the future? Studying History at Iowa State University brings benefits and rewards both personal and professional. History is a subject we can read and love long after graduation. The amazing variety of historical topics, the joy … Continue reading Why History? Why Now?
Our excellent faculty of teacher-scholars holds regular office hours for all students. Here is a list, with office numbers: The following faculty hold office hours only by appointment:
Lily Fedler graduated with her BS in History in May 2023 and, like over a third of ISU History graduates, is pursuing a career in business. Having interned at Midwest-based restaurant and hotel operator Heart of America Corporation, she was hired as Assistant to the CEO as soon as she graduated. Looking back on her … Continue reading Careers and History
Professor Stacy Cordery of the Iowa State University History Department was elected vice-president and president-elect of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (SHGAPE) in December. Prof. Cordery is Senior Historical Consultant for the Theodore Roosevelt Center and a long-time member of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Advisory Board. Author of Alice: … Continue reading ISU Historian Elected President of SHGAPE
The Department of History is pleased to announce that our 2009 graduate Maggie Luttrell Roby is recipient of the 2022 College Young Alumni Award. Maggie, who also earned a Women’s Studies degree followed by a Masters in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, currently works for Cargill in Kansas City. She credits Prof. Michael Bailey with … Continue reading History Graduate Earns College Young Alumni Award