Department Chair Simon Cordery Modern Transatlantic Director of Graduate Education Kathleen Hilliard Informal Economy, Civil War, Slavery, & Emancipation Faculty Tunde Adeleke African & African American History; Global African Diaspora James T. Andrews Russia & Comparative Eurasia; History of European Science & Technology Michael D. Bailey Medieval European History: Magic, Witchcraft, Superstition & Heresy Brian D. Behnken U.S. History, African American History, Mexican American History, Latino/a Studies, & History of Civil Rights & Social Activism Jeremy Best Modern Europe & the World, Modern Germany Amy Bix Technology & Engineering, Medicine, & Science; U.S. Women's History Jeff Bremer Iowa History, Agricultural & Rural History, Early American Republic, History Education Stacy Cordery First Ladies, Roosevelt Family, and Gilded Age & Progressive Era Julie Courtwright U.S. Environmental History & the American West Paul Griffiths 16th- & 17th-Century English Cultural & Social History Bonar Hernández Latin America, Religion and Politics, Social Movements, Transnationalism Kevin D. Hill Agricultural History & Medieval Europe David Hollander Greek and Roman History Lawrence McDonnell 19th Century American History, Slavery and the Old South, Civil War and Reconstruction John Warne Monroe Modern France & Francophone West Africa, Modern Europe, Cultural & Intellectual History, Material Culture Pamela Riney-Kehrberg U.S. Rural & Agricultural History, Families, & Communities Amy Rutenberg Modern U.S., Women's & Gender History, War & Society, Social Studies Education Wendie Ellen Schneider History of Empire, British History, Legal History, & Animal History Tao Wang Political & Diplomatic History of Modern China, History of U.S. Foreign Relations, & the Cold War International History Benjamin Withers Dean [LAS] Timothy S. Wolters History of Technology, Maritime/Naval History, Military Historiography Staff and academic advising Emily Randall Secretary III [POL S] Kevin D. Hill Agricultural History & Medieval Europe Non-departmental historians Joshua L. Rosenbloom Department of Economics, Professor and Chair