Rachael Storm
Adjunct Professor
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
Biography
Rachael Storm specializes in twentieth-century history of capitalism, with particular interests in agribusiness, mining, environmental impacts of the military-industrial complex, and Cold War history. She received a B.S. and M.A. in history from Iowa State University and an M.A., Certificate of Museum Studies, and Ph.D. from the University of Delaware. She is Curator of Business & Industry at History Colorado and Vice President of the Colorado-Wyoming Association of Museums.
Education
Iowa State University, B.S., History, 2011; Iowa State University, M.A., History, 2013
Research Interests
20th-century American social and cultural history, particularly children & youth, mass media, and domestic material culture & practices. My dissertation examines the national and local discourses surrounding rural teenagers’ use of time in the postwar era, and explores the links between those discourses and practice through a case study of a small Iowa town.
Dissertation Title
“‘The Nation’s Youngest Capitalists”: How the Future Farmers of America
shaped rural communities, agribusiness, and the modern American farmer,
1928-1993”
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