Faculty & Staff
Jenny Barker-Devine
Professor of History
Kirby Learning Center, Room 218
217.245.3476
Research Interests
U.S history, Agricultural history and rural studies, Women's history
Education
Iowa State University | Ph.D. | Agricultural History and Rural Studies
Iowa State University | M.A.
University of Central Missouri | B.A. | History and International Studies
Bio
Dr. Jenny Barker-Devine is a historian of American agriculture and rural life, with interests in archives and advocacy for the humanities. She is the author of many scholarly articles, as well as On Behalf of the Family Farm: Iowa Farm Women's Activism in Iowa Since 1945 (University of Iowa Press, 2013), which explores how Iowa's farm women acted to better conditions in the countryside. Her current project American Athena: Cultivating Victorian Womanhood on the Midwestern Frontier considers how women created and maintained opportunities for education, activism, and community in the nineteenth century.
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