Dr. Matthew Plowman
Dr. Matthew Plowman
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (1999)
* Modern European History * World History
MA, University of Nebraska-Omaha (1995)
* History * Art History (Graduate Minor)
BA, Dana College (1993)
* History * Humanities
Office Location: Salveson 212
(641) 585-8222
plowmanm@waldorf.edu
Teaching Experience
Waldorf College, Iowa (2004 - Present)
Associate Professor of History
Waldorf College, Iowa (2000 - 2004)
Assistant Professor of History
Rogers State University, Oklahoma (1999 – 2000)
Assistant Professor of Humanities
Midland Lutheran College, Nebraska (1999)
Adjunct Instructor of History
Dana College, Nebraska (1993 – 1999)
Adjunct Instructor of History
Specialty
Global Modernist
Period: 19th-21st centuries
Areas: British, German, American and African history
Strengths: International, political, and cultural history
Interest: Nationalsim and imperialism
Course Assignment
499 History Seminar: Nationalism & Ethnic Conflict
499 History Seminar: British Empire & Imperialism
465 World War II
460 World War I
440 Modern Germany
430 British Empire
355 Modern Africa
302 Humanities II
300 Northern Plains
202 US History Since 1898
200 Honors Philosophy
171 Contemporary World
120 Medieval World
110 Ancient World
Publications
“Sinn Fein and the Gadar Party in the Indo-German Conspiracy of World War I,” a chapter in India and Ireland : Colonies, Cultures, and Empire. Dublin : Irish Academic Press, 2006.
Review of Viking Age Headcoverings from Dublin , by Elizabeth Wincott Heckett. The Medieval Review (Spring 2005) online. Republished in Chronicle, a quarterly journal of Regia Anglorum, an Anglo-Saxon and Viking living history society in Britain .
“Irish Republicans and the Indo-German Conspiracy of World War I”, New Hibernia Review. Vol. 7, no 3 (Autumn 2003) pp. 80-105.
Introduction and Commentary, Inside the Fighting First: Papers of a Nebraska Private in the Philippine War. Edited by Thomas Nielsen. Lur Publications, 2001.
“The Anglo-Irish Factors in the Indo-German Conspiracy in San Francisco During World War I, 1913-1921”, Ph.D. Dissertation, 1999.
“Doors Left Open, Then Slammed Shut: Anglo-German Rivalry in Southwest Africa , 1884-1915”, MA Thesis, 1995.
Institutional Responsibilities
Vision Task Force (2006 - )
Waldorf Historia—History Club (2001 - ), Co-Sponsor
Honors College —Honors Philosophy (2001 - )
Humanities Council (2000 - ), Acting Chair
Governance Task Force (2002 – 2005), Co-Chair
Critical Inquiry Program (2000 – 2005), Coordinator
Assessment Committee (2000 – 2005)
Library Committee (2000 – 2004)
Secondary Education Task Force (2002 – 2003)
Strategic Planning Committee (2002 – 2003)
Liberal Studies Task Force (2002)
Awards
Professor of the Year Award, Alpha Chi, 2002-2003.
Outstanding Faculty Award, Board of Regents, 2002-2003.
