TEACHING

Colin Gordon, Associate Professor of History

[link to Iowa Department of History homepage]

EDUCATION

University of Wisconsin - Madison, PhD. History, 1990

York University - Toronto, M.A. History, 1986

University of Alberta - Edmonton, B.A.(honors), History, 1985

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

Associate Professor, June 1996-present, University of Iowa

Assistant Professor, 1994-1996, University of Iowa

Assistant Professor, 1990-1994, University of British Columbia

TEACHING

Undergraduate Courses

New Era, New Deal: The US, 1920-1945 [course web page] [catalogue description] [most recent syllabus]

The United States in a World at War [course web page] [catalogue description] [most recent syllabus]

The United States, 1877-present [course web page] [catalogue description] [most recent syllabus]

The US Health System in Global Perspective (with Maureen McCue) [course web page] [catalogue description] [most recent syllabus]

Graduate Courses

Modern America, Selected Readings [most recent syllabus]

Modern America, Research Seminar [most recent syllabus]

Theses supervised

David McMahon, PhD, African-American Sports History (in progress)

Jon Lauck, PhD, Agriculture and the Problem of Monopoly (Iowa, 1997; with D. McCloskey)

Simon Knight, MA, “Reluctant Realists: the Pacific Northwest lumber industry, federal labor Standards and union legislation during the New Deal” (UBC, 1993).

Carrie Parnie, MA, “The Forest for the Trees: the Pacific Northwest lumber industry and Environmental Legislation, 1965-1976” (UBC, 1993).

Thesis Committees (not supervisor)

John Ivers (MA, ongoing)

John McKerley (PhD, ongoing)

Tetsuya Fujiwara, PhD prospectus, Spring 2003

Mark Milosch, PhD Defense, Fall 2002

Christopher Moon, PhD defense, Spring 2002

Peter Ellen, PhD Defense, Spring 2002

Michael Innis, PhD Prospectus, Fall 2002

Scott Perrin, MA defense, Fall 2001

Dan Knickrehm, MA defense, Fall 2001

David Colman, PhD, defense, Summer 2001

Mike Augspurger, PhD (American Studies), Spring 2001

Susan Roth, Phd, prospectus, Spring 1999

Peter Ellen, Phd, prospectus, Fall 1998

Cathryn Rymph, PhD, defense Spring 1998

Calvin Coquillette, PhD, defense Fall 1997

Comprehensive Exam Committees

John McKerley, Fall 2002

Mark Depue, Spring 1999

Kriston Beardsley (Plan B), Spring 1999

Bill Bryant (American Studies), Fall 1998

Mike Merulla (education), Spring 1998

Jennifer Person, Spring 1998

Yu-Cheng Qin, Spring 1998

Peter Ellen, Spring 1996

David Colman, Spring 1996

Peter Ellen, Spring 1996

Laura Baker (American Studies), Spring 1996

Emma Kierney {education), Fall 1996

David McMahon, Spring 1996

Bonnie Hutchens, Spring 1996

Honors Committees

Mark Mesle, Spring 2003

Marilyn Olson, Fall 2002 (supervisor)

Sarah Miller, Spring 2002

Stephanie Shore, Spring 2002

Doug Reasner, Spring 1998

Mike Schmoll, Spring 1998

Scott Perrin, Spring 1998

John Osaka, Spring 1996 (supervisor)