Derek Buckaloo
Assistant Professor of History
B.A., Stanford University
M.A., Ph.D., Emory University
Phone: (319) 399-8627
E-mail: dbuckalo@coe.edu

Dr. Buckaloo teaches American history, with special interests in twentieth-century politics and culture, foreign relations, particularly the Cold War and the Vietnam War, and Native American history. His present research is on the "Vietnam Syndrome."

Edmund Burke
Professor of Humanities
A.B., Holy Cross College
M.A., Ph.D., Tufts University
Phone: (319) 399-8683
E-mail: eburke@coe.edu

Dr. Burke teaches Greek history and Roman history. He has authored articles and papers in classical studies.

Glenn Janus
Henrietta Arnold Professor of History
B.A., University of Rochester
M.A., Ph.D., Ohio State University
Phone: (319) 399-8701
E-mail: gjanus@coe.edu

Dr. Janus teaches modern European history, including Imperial Russian, Soviet, and East European history, and American Catholic history and culture. He currently is authoring a book on the topic of "Catholicism and Americanism."

Melody M. Miyamoto
Assistant Professor of History
B.Ed. University of Hawaii
M.A, Ph.D. Arizona State University
Phone: (319) 399-8135
E-mail: mmiyamot@coe.edu

Dr. Miyamoto teaches United States history, and her primary interests are women’s history, and the history of the American West. Her current research focuses on the concept of home and the ways that gender prescriptions affected society.

David Nordmann
Assistant Professor of History
B.A., Coe College
M.A., University of Kansas
Ph.D., Indiana University
Phone: (319) 399-8692
E-mail: dnordman@coe.edu

Dr. Nordmann teaches Western Civilization in addition to courses in East Asian history. His specialties include Meiji Japan, late nineteenth-century Korea, U.S.-East Asia relations and Asian-American history.