Faculty
Full Time
Ryan Dye, PhD
Associate Professor, 563/333-6210
Courses
Daniel LaCorte, PhD
Associate Professor and Chair, 563/333-6491
Courses
Keri Manning, PhD
Assistant Professor, 563/333-6106
Courses
Sandy McKinley, PhD
Assistant Professor, 563/333-6084
Courses
Part Time
George Eaton
Adjunct Assistant Professor 563/333-6131
Arthur Pitz, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor 563/333-6131
Katy Strzepek
Adjunct Assistant Professor 563/333-6210
Professors Emeritus
Richard Geiger
563/391-7818
Rev. George McDaniel, PhD
563/333-6299
Faculty Background
Ryan Dye, Associate Professor of History/Director of International Education
(A.B. University of Notre Dame, Ph.D. Northwestern University)
300c Ambrose Hall
Specializations: Modern Ireland/Britain, Irish Diaspora, Colonial and Antebellum US, Middle East
Courses taught:
HIST 340 Modern Britain
HIST 341 History of the British Empire
HIST 342 Modern Ireland
HIST 343 War and Peace in Northern Ireland
HIST 365 American Immigration History
HIST 368 The Irish-American Experience
Daniel La Corte, Associate Professor of History/Department Chair
(B.A. University of Dallas, M.A. Western Michigan University, Ph.D. Fordham University)
226 Ambrose Hall
Specializations: Medieval Europe, Church History, Ancient Greece and Rome
Courses taught:
HIST 101 World Civilization to 1500
WI-HIST 307 Christianity in Culture I
WI-HIST 308 Christianity in Culture II
HIST 309 Ancient Greece
HIST 310 Roman History
HIST 315 Monks, Mystics, and Madmen
HIST 315 Love and War in the Middle Ages
HIST 317 The Middle Ages
HIST 318 Medieval Britain
HIST 319 History of the Renaissance
HIST 320 The European Reformations
HIST 321 Medieval Women
Keri Manning, Assistant Professor of History
(B.A. University of Alabama, M.A., Ph.D. University of Kentucky)
222 Ambrose Hall
Specializations: Twentieth Century United States, Women's History, East Asia
Courses taught:
HIST 112 US History since 1865
HIST 219 Early East Asia
HIST 220 Modern East Asia
HIST 315 Nonviolent Resistance since 1865
HIST 315 The Silk Road
HIST 315 American Farming
HIST 350 The Vietnam Wars
HIST 360 Gilded Age and Progressivism
HIST 361 Early 20th-Century America
HIST 362 US Since World War II
HIST 367 American Women: Topics
HIST 369 The African-American Experience: Topics
Sandy McKinley, Assistant Professor of History
(B.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D. Brandeis University)
222A Ambrose Hall 563-333-6084
Specializations: Modern European Intellectual History, Latin American History
Courses taught:
HIST 102 World Civilization Since 1300
HIST 115/315 The Spanish Civil War
HIST 229 Colonial Latin America
HIST 230 Modern Latin America
HIST 336 Europe 1648 to 1815
HIST 337 Europe 1815 to 1918
HIST 338 The Twentieth-Century World
HIST 400 Historical Methods