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Role: Faculty

Benjamin Withers

Dean [LAS]

Wendie Ellen Schneider

Adjunct Associate Professor [HIST]

Since joining the Iowa State History Department in 2006 to be with my family, I have taught in the areas of British history, Chinese history, legal history, and the history of the British Empire. In 2014, I received an LAS...

Kevin D. Hill

Associate Teaching Professor [HIST]

I serve as the History Department’s undergraduate advisor. In addition, I study and teach about the history of agriculture and rural life in the West. My courses cover Western Civilization, medieval Europe, and the history of agriculture in North America.

Stacy Cordery

Professor [LAS]

At Iowa State, I am a professor of History, the Director of Undergraduate Studies (the DUST) for the History Department, and an affiliate faculty member with the Women’s and Gender Studies Program and the Carrie Chapman Catt Center. I earned...

Simon Cordery

Department Chair [HIST]

As Chair of the History Department I oversee the administration and management of our excellent faculty and outstanding programs. Before joining Iowa State University in 2016, I served as Department Chair for four years at Western Illinois University and for...

Timothy S. Wolters

Associate Professor [HIST]

My research focuses on maritime and naval history, the global history of technology, and military historiography. Lengthy scholarly articles have appeared in the academic journals Enterprise and Society, the Journal of Military History (2), and Technology and Culture. Johns Hopkins...

Tao Wang

Associate Professor [HIST]

I study modern Chinese history, US foreign relations, and the Cold War international history. Focusing on US relations with China during the Cold War period, my research has been supported by a Bou Family Foundation Special Grant, a Chiang Ching-kuo...

Amy Rutenberg

Associate Professor [HIST]

My education and experience have led to me to two separate areas of teaching and research here at ISU. First, I earned an Ed.M. in Curriculum and Instruction from Harvard University and have several years’ work experience as high school...

Pamela Riney-Kehrberg

Distinguished Professor [HIST]

My research focuses on American rural and agricultural history, as well as the history of childhood and youth, and the family. Although most of my work has been in the period from 1875-1945, my last two projects are more contemporary....

John Warne Monroe

Professor [HIST]

I am a historian of modern Europe, with a particular interest in the places where the borders of “Europe” become porous: moments of cultural contact and commercial exchange that force us to question what this thing “the West” is and...

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