Contact
| Dept: | History |
| Email: | jrbremer@iastate.edu |
| Office: | 621 Ross 527 Farm House Ln. Ames IA 50011-1054 |
| Phone: | 515-294-5620 |
Bio
I teach classes on the early American republic, Iowa history, business history, and social studies methods. I also help coordinate ISU's history and social studies education program—I was a teacher in California before earning my Ph.D. Before coming to ISU, I taught at Stephen F. Austin State University and at the University of Kansas. At KU I taught for the Humanities and Western Civilization program for five years.
In 2024 I won the LAS Award for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching. I was also awarded the Benjamin F. Shambaugh award for best book on Iowa the same year. I have been a Fulbright Scholar in China and Poland.
My first book, A Store Almost in Sight: The Economic Transformation of Missouri from the Louisiana Purchase to the Civil War, was published in 2014. The University Press of Kansas published A New History of Iowa in 2023, a comprehensive survey of the state from the last ice age until the end of 2020. I have published articles in Annals of Iowa, Kansas History, Agricultural History, Middle West Review, and contributed chapters to edited collections on the Midwest. My next book will be Des Moines: A Concise History for Indiana University Press. It will be the first survey of the city since the 1940s.
Bibliography for A New History of Iowa.