By Dwain Coleman During my first semester as a Ph.D. student at the University of Iowa, I have had the privilege of working with History Corps. As part of my assignment for the semester, I reviewed primary source documents on…
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By Sophie Croll, Summer 2016 Intern Professor Rand, PhD student Mary Wise, and I visited the Blood Run State Historic Site in July to do some fieldwork with Lance Foster, the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer of the Iowa Tribe of…
By Marius Kothor In response to the problematic representations of African people in popular discourse, I started the Iowa-Africa project last fall to illustrate the diverse experiences of African people in the United States and on the continent by documenting…
By Professor Jacki Thompson Rand, Heather Wacha, and Mary Wise After a thought-provoking conversation about public engagement at the University of Iowa’s WorldCanvass “Taking it to the Streets: Engagement and the Academy” event tonight, Heather Wacha, Professor Jacki Rand and…
By Laurel Sanders Click through to see a larger version of these webcomics! Laurel Sanders is a Ph.D. student in the History program. She has a Master’s degree in Public History from Appalachian State University and has some past experience in…
By David De La Torre This semester, I had the pleasure of being one of the social media coordinators for our History Corps Facebook and Twitter pages. Despite the many challenges that this role brought, the last three months…
by Heather Wacha I am a medievalist. I study the lives of twelfth- and thirteenth-century women. How many times have I wished I could interview these women and ask them questions about their lives, their roles as women, their relationships,…
by Professor Jacki Rand The history of History Corps is a short one as the group has been in existence for less than a decade. My affiliation with the project goes back three years when graduate students asked me to…
by Katherine Massoth When I joined History Corps in fall 2013, I was filled with both excitement and trepidation. I was vaguely familiar with the project as three of my colleagues – Noaquia Callahan, Bethany Otremba Heinrich, and Sylvea Hollis…
by Eric Zimmer A couple of history professors founded the History Corps under a different name, the “UI Humanities Story Corps” (HSC) in 2011. In its earliest iteration, the project focused on giving graduate students experience performing, editing, and posting…
