Colin Gordon

Colin Gordon is Professor and Chair of History at the University of Iowa, where he has taught since 1994. He is the author of New Deals: Business, Labor and Politics, 1920-1935 (1994), Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health in Twentieth Century America (2003), and Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City (2008). He is also a senior research consultant to the Iowa Policy Project, where he writes on state labor, health, and economic development policies. Colin Gordon received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990.