Coe College

Derek Buckaloo
Associate Professor of History
Department 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."

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."

Bethany Keenan
Assistant Professor of History
B.A., Douglass College, Rutgers
M.A., Rutgers
M.A., Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Phone: (319) 399-8693
E-mail: bkeenan@coe.edu

Dr. Keenan teaches European history. She is particularly interested in twentieth-century Europe, especially France. In her teaching and work, she focuses on transnational relations, social uprisings, and questions of national identity. Her current research is on a group of American expatriates in Paris who protested the U.S. - Vietnam War during the 1960s.

David Nordmann
Associate 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.

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.