BIO
Cory Haala joined the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point as the Museum Studies Coordinator in 2023 after earning his Ph.D. at Marquette University in 2020. Haala has held teaching positions at schools from Connecticut to Texas to Minnesota. He teaches courses in modern U.S. history, public and digital history, and museum studies. View CV.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Public and Digital History
- Wisconsin and the Midwest
- Party Politics, Campaigns, and Activism
PUBLICATIONS
How the Democrats Won the Heartland: Progressive Populism in the Age of Reagan, 1978-1992 [under contract, University of Illinois Press]
“’Why We Must Save the Family Farm’: Midwestern Liberalism and Progressive Agricultural Policy, 1985-1996,” The Liberal Heartland: A Political History of the Postwar American Midwest, eds. Jon K. Lauck and Catherine McNicol Stock. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas [tentative publication 2023].
“’There exists a conservative veneer’: Terry Branstad, Chuck Grassley, and the Conservative Capture of the Republican Party of Iowa, 1976-1986,” The Conservative Heartland: A Political History of the Postwar American Midwest, eds. Jon K. Lauck and Catherine McNicol Stock. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2020.
“Replanting the Grassroots: The Remaking of the South Dakota Democratic Party from McGovern to Daschle, 1980-1986,” The Plains Political Tradition, Vol. 3, eds. Jon Lauck, John E. Miller, Paula Nelson Pierre: South Dakota Historical Society Press, 2018.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- Midwestern History Association
- Agricultural History Society
- American Historical Association
- National Council on Public History
BEST ADVICE?
Your education is yours. No one can take it away from you.” [My grandma, Marlys Haala]
LAST BOOK YOU READ?
Pipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century, by Kai Bosworth
FAVORITE QUOTE
“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.” -Charles Schultz
FUN FACT
When he was growing up, he wanted to be a history professor or gym teacher. Hard to decipher from his drawings!