UI Department of History

Professor Viridiana Hernandez Fernandez and PhD Candidate Ashley Dorn were both presenters at this year's the Agricultural History Society's Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA.

Professor Hernandez Fernandez participated on a panel discussing Crop Innovation and Dorn presented her research on a panel about Struggles over Farm Labor in the Long 20th Century.

Congratulations to PhD Candidate Haseeb Haroon, who successfully defended his dissertation prospectus.

Congratulations to our undergraduate students graduating tomorrow!

Congratulations to Dr. Nathan Chaplin. Nathan researched U.S. empire building in Nicaragua under advisor Dr. Mariola Espinosa. He defended his dissertation, "Middle Americas: Midwestern Futures in Nicaragua, 1855-1927" in April and will graduate this evening at Carver Hawkeye Arena.

Congratulations to our annual award winners and scholarship recipients who were honored during our end of year Senior Sendoff and Celebration of Scholarship earlier.

Congratulations to PhD Candidate Tyler Tumblety, who successfully defended his dissertation prospectus.

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Ashley Howard who was awarded 2025-26 CLAS Collegiate Teaching Award!

https://history.uiowa.edu/news/2026/04/ashley-howard-awarded-clas-collegiate-teaching-award

Help us in congratulating Dr. Nathan Chaplin. Nathan defended his dissertation today, "Middle Americas: Midwestern Futures in Nicaragua, 1855-1927."

Kudos to our amazing faculty, staff and students who helped make this a great conference for all attendees this past weekend! Special props to Professors Sarah Bond, Rosemary Moore, and Shane Bobrycki for putting it together and hosting over 70 historians.

Ancient history conference comes to UI campus for the first time Over 70 historians and scholars who study the ancient world from around the nation gathered at the University of Iowa April 17-19 for the annual three-day 2026 Association of Ancient Historians Meeting. The UI was set to host the conference in 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic moved the conference vir...

Head to Prairie Lights Books on Thu, Apr 9 at 7pm for the next Book Matters reading/discussion.

James Costa, professor of biology and executive director of the Highlands Biological Station at Western Carolina University, and Elizabeth Yale, associate professor of history at the University of Iowa will read from and discuss their new book, the first annotated edition of The Descent of Man: An Annotated Edition of Darwin’s Classic Work.

An audience Q&A will follow. This event is free and open to the public.

https://events.uiowa.edu/event/36536