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Role: RATE Program Faculty

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...

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....

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, and social studies methods. A former history teacher from California, I help coordinate ISU's history and social studies education program. In 2024 I will teach U.S. business history for the...

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...

James T. Andrews

University Professor [HIST]

I am University Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Modern Russian and Comparative European/Eurasian history at Iowa State University (ISU). At ISU, I have been the Inaugural Director of the University Center for Excellence in the Humanities and the...

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