Coe College

Derek Buckaloo
Associate Professor of History, Chair
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."

Terry Heller
Howard Hall Professor of English
A.B. North Central College
A.M., Ph.D. University of Chicago

Dr. Heller is author of The Delights of Terror and The Turn of the Screw: Bewildered Vision, and editor of Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Fiction. He has written reference articles, short fiction, and literary journal essays. He is the current manager of the on-line archive, the Sarah Orne Jewett Text Project. Dr. Heller teaches Russian, American, and popular literature. One of his favorite courses is Monsters in Film.

Christopher Hoag
Associate Professor of Business Administration and Economics
B.A., Amherst College
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
E-mail: choag@coe.edu
Website: http://www.public.coe.edu/~choag/

Dr. Hoag specializes in financial economic history and has interests in applied microeconomic theory and econometrics.

Robert Marrs
The Esther & Robert Armstrong Professor of Rhetoric, Chair
Director of Writing Center
B.A., Kansas State University
M.A., Ph.D., Washington State University

Dr. Marrs is the Director of the Writing Center, and coordinator of the college's Writing-Across-the-Curriculum program.

Patrick Naick
Assistant Professor of English
B.A. University of California, Berkeley
M.A. Purdue University
Ph.D. University of Iowa

Patrick Naick's teaching and research focuses on 20th century Amrican literature and culture with specific interests in Aftican Amrican literature and urban studies. He also serves ias coordinator for the American Studies and African American Studies program.

Dr. Rachael Neal
Assistant Professor of Sociology
B.A., Beloit College
M.A., Ph.D., University of Arizona

Bruce Nesmith
Associate Professor of Political Science, Chair
B.A., North Central College
M.A., Ph.D., University of Illinois
E-mail: bnesmith@coe.edu

Bruce Nesmith is Joan and Abbott Lipsky Professor and Chair of political science. He teaches courses on American political institutions, religion and U.S. politics, and political philosophy. He is author of The New Republican Coalition: The Reagan Campaigns and White Evangelicals (Peter Lang, 1994). His current research deals with policy making by the President and Congress. He is the faculty adviser to Political Science Club. He is married with two children. In his spare time he writes and performs original folk songs; he has recorded two albums, "Mouth Full of Mustard" and "Almost Endless Fun".

Brie Swenson Arnold
Assistant Professor of History
B.A., Concordia College - Moorhead, MN
M.A., Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Phone: (319) 399-8135
E-mail: barnold@coe.edu

Dr. Swenson Arnold teaches United States history, specializing in early American history, the Civil War, and women's and gender history. Her research focuses on gender, politics, and popular culture in the Civil War era.

Deborah Wooldridge
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Rhetoric
B.A., B.S., Iowa State University
M.F.A, Yale University

Ms. Wooldridge teaches Interpersonal, Intercultural, and Small Group Communication; and Speech Seminars.

Christy Wolfe
Assistant Professor
J.D., Ph.D. Director of Master of Arts in Teaching Program, University of Iowa
Office: 402B Stuart Hall
E-amil: cwolfe@coe.edu
Phone: 319-399-8263