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Alyssa Culp

Assistant Professor of History

Department:
History
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Office Hours:

Mon: 9:55-10:55 a.m.
Tue: 9:30-10:30 a.m.
Wed: 9:55-10:55 a.m.
Thr: 12:10-1:10 p.m.
Fri: 9:55-10:55 a.m.
Alyssa Culp

B.A., University of South Florida-Tampa
M.A. University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Ph.D. University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Dr. Alyssa Culp is a historian of modern Germany, whose research focuses on the intersections of science, medicine, and local culture. Her forthcoming book project examines morgues to tell a new story about tradition and the realities of public health in nineteenth-century Bavaria. Alyssa’s research was most recently supported by a 2020-2021 Fulbright Open Study/Research Award to Germany and with a 2019 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst or German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Short-Term Research Grant and a Central European Historical Society Research and Travel Grant.

At IWU, Alyssa’s courses explore European and Global History through themes of memory, digital storytelling, medicine and public health, and the global reach of science and technology. In class, her students dive into topics ranging from chocolate pirates sailing on the Columbian Exchange, grave robbing anatomy students, to Cold War sports and space races. When she’s not teaching, you’ll find her traveling, chasing after her dog, Knox, or exploring cemeteries and other historical sites—because the dead always tell the best tales.

Courses

History 122 Modern Global History

History/Hum 220 From Pyramids to AI: Global Perspectives of Science, Medicine, & Technology

History 221 The Holocaust

History 222 The World Wars in Public Memory & Digital History

History 290 Theories, Methods, and Crafting of History

History 323 History of Nursing

History 324 Beyond Disease and Quarantine: A History of Medicine & Public Health

History 325 Modern Germany