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History
UI faculty
research projects in History currently available to SROP scholars.
This list does not represent all faculty interested in being
mentors. Please check the
History faculty website for additional research interests.
Online Historical Documentaries
| Principal Investigator |
Marshall Poe, Associate Professor Department(s): History College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Research Description | To make short historical documentaries and distribute them online. |
| Undergraduate Role | Research potential topics; write scripts; produce storyboards; find and photograph images; find sounds and music; compose the films themselves. |
| Minimum Qualifications | None, but some facility with computers and interest in visual story telling would be a plus. |
| Contact Information |
335-2291 marshall-poe@uiowa.edu Professor Marshall Poe |
Memory and Emancipation in the Upper Midwest
| Principal Investigator |
Leslie Schwalm, Associate Professor Department(s): History College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Research Description | To establish and understand the significance of race in midwestern Civil War history and memory. |
| Undergraduate Role | Survey nineteenth and twentieth century newspaper reporting on issues of historical interest, in mainstream and African American newspapers; and read widely in secondary sources to develop a historical context for these issues. |
| Minimum Qualifications | Course background in US, African American or Native American History. |
| Contact Information |
(Telephone) 319-335-2299 (Email address) leslie-schwalm@uiowa.edu University website for Professor Leslie Schwalm |
The 1862 Dakota Uprising and Civil War Meanings of Race
| Principal Investigator |
Leslie Schwalm, Associate Professor Department(s): History College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Research Description | To establish and understand the significance of race in midwestern Civil War history and memory. |
| Undergraduate Role | Survey nineteenth and twentieth century newspaper reporting on issues of historical interest, in mainstream and African American newspapers; and read widely in secondary sources to develop a historical context for these issues. |
| Minimum Qualifications | Course background in US, African American or Native American History. |
| Contact Information |
(Telephone) 319-335-2299 (Email address) leslie-schwalm@uiowa.edu University website for Professor Leslie Schwalm |