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Role: RATE Program Faculty

Timothy S. Wolters

Associate Professor [HIST]

My research focuses on the global history of technology, military and naval history, and U.S. business history. My work has appeared in the leading journals in all three fields: Technology and Culture, Journal of Military History, and Enterprise and Society....

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 1870-1945, my last project, and the current one,...

Lawrence McDonnell

Assistant 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:...

Michael Christopher Low

Assistant Professor [HIST]

Michael Christopher Low’s primary research interests include the late Ottoman Empire, the Arabian Peninsula, the Indian Ocean World, and Environmental History. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2015. Low is the author of Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and...

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]

I am a historian of religion in modern Latin America who teaches courses on the history of the continent, of revolution, and of religion. My research analyzes the interplay between religion and politics during the twentieth century in Guatemala, with...

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 am a specialist in the early American republic, with an interest in the history of the American Midwest. In 2014 the University of Iowa Press published my book A Store Almost in Sight: The Economic Transformation of Missouri From...

Amy Bix

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...

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