Students! Come have a donut and an informal chat with the DUST (the Director of Undergraduate Studies), Dr. Stacy Cordery, about whatever’s on your mind: summer internships, resumes, classes, careers, better studying techniques, how to ask for a letter of recommendation, etc.
The Fall 2024 Research Grant was awarded to Michael D. Bailey, Distinguished Professor in the Department of History. Bailey’s project will explore the contested association of witchcraft with women in medieval Europe in the 15th century. While the association of witchcraft with women is age-old, new stereotypes of witchcraft emerged in legal, theological, and literary … Continue reading Michael Bailey received a Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities grant
Layk Nollen, who just graduated in December 2024 with his History major, took advantage of an unusual opportunity to do some “concrete” work in his chosen field of Public History–and it turned out to have an unexpected connection to his past! For Fall ’24, Nollen was an intern for ISU’s Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering … Continue reading Layk Nollen (’24), discovered a link to his family during an internship
Prof. Pamela Riney-Kehrberg’s class America Eats created a class cookbook this semester. The assignment was to submit a recipe, and its backstory, to be shared. Students submitted a wide variety of recipes, some self-created, and some from great grandmothers, grandmothers, fathers, and other family members. It was an opportunity to share their favorite foods, and … Continue reading History 3670 Class Cookbook
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:
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