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Role: Faculty

Lawrence McDonnell

Associate Professor [HIST]

My research explores nineteenth-century American history, with particular focus on the Old South, the coming of the Civil War, and the central role that conflict played in reconstructing the United States as a capitalist nation. My first book, Performing Disunion:...

David Hollander

Professor [HIST]

I study the economic history of late Republican and early Imperial Rome. I am the author of Money in the Late Roman Republic (Brill, 2007) and Farmers and Agriculture in the Roman Economy (Routledge, 2018). Along with Thomas R. Blanton...

Kathleen Hilliard

Associate Professor [HIST]

As a peripatetic Marine Corps “brat,” roving Virginia, Georgia, and the Carolinas, I grew up a natural observer of the politics, economy, and culture of southern rural life. After completing my doctorate at the University of South Carolina, I enjoyed...

Bonar Hernández

Associate Professor [HIST]

My teaching and research interests focus on the intersection of religion, ethnicity, and politics, the development of transnational religious movements, and the rise of revolutionary movements during the Cold War in Latin America. I received my Ph.D. in Latin American...

Julie Courtwright

Associate Professor [HIST]

My research focuses on the Great Plains of North America. I am currently at work on a history of wind in that region, which is the second part of a projected trilogy on fire, wind, and water. I am interested...

Jeff Bremer

Associate Professor [HIST]

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,...

Amy Bix

Distinguished Professor [HIST]

My research connects the history of technology, science, and medicine with studies of women and gender, the history of education, and twentieth-century social, cultural, and intellectual history. My most recent book, ‘Girls Coming to Tech!’: A History of American Engineering...

Jeremy Best

Associate Professor [HIST]

My research is on the history of race, religion, and culture in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany. I am especially interested in the history of imagination; the construction of meaning by people and institutions in the past through fantasy, the articulation...

Brian D. Behnken

Professor [HIST]

I specialize in African American and Mexican American history, with an emphasis on civil rights activism and comparative race relations. I also study racial violence, law enforcement, popular culture, and nationalism as they relate to African American and Latino/a/x peoples....

Michael D. Bailey

Distinguished Professor [HIST]

I am a historian of the European Middle Ages, having received my PhD from Northwestern University in 1998. My research focuses on late medieval religious history, particularly the history of magic, witchcraft, and superstition, as well as heresy and religious...

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