Faculty

Pamela Riney-Kehrberg

Professor
Director
Agriculture History and Rural Studies Program

652 Ross Hall
Dept. of History
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
Phone: (515) 294-1451
Email: prinkeh@iastate.edu

Education
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
 
Research and Teaching Interests
U.S. Agricultural and Rural History
History of Childhood and the Family
The American West
Environmental History
U.S. History, 1870-1945
 
Selected Publications
Childhood on the Farm: Work, Play and Coming of Age in the Midwest, (University Press of Kansas, 2005).
 
"The Limits of Policy: Rural Children and Work in the United States and New Zealand, 1870-1920," The History of the Family 6 (2001): 51-67.
 
"But What Kind of Work Do the Rest of You Do?" Child Labor on Nebraska's Farms, 1870-1920," Nebraska History 82 (Spring 2001): 2-10.
 
"Alice Churned, Kathleen Washed, Hugh Milked: Daughters and Sons o New Zealand's Turn-of-the-Century Farms," Turnbull Library Record 33 (2000): 63-80.
 
"Helping Ma and Helping Pa: Iowa's Turn-of-the-Century Farm Children." Annals of Iowa (Sp 2000): 115-140
 
ed., Waiting on the Bounty: The Dust Bowl Diary of Mary Knackstedt Dyck (University of Iowa Press, 1999)
 
Rooted in Dust: Surviving Drought and Depression in Southwestern Kansas (University Press of Kansas,1994)
 
Courses Taught
Rural History
Agricultural History
United States History, 1865-Present
Women in Rural Life
 
Professional Activity
Content advisor, "Forces of Change," National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
 
Advisor for major exhibit on the grasslands of North America
 
Historical advisor. "Surviving the Dust Bowl," a PBS documentary film, The American Experience. (Mar. 3, 1998)
 
Editorial Board, Kansas History
 
Agricultural History Society
 
Rural Women's Studies Association
 
Social Science History Association
 
Western History Association