Sara Egge

BIOGRAPHY

Sara Egge joined Centre’s faculty in 2012 and is Claude D. Pottinger Associate Professor of History. She was named a Centre Scholar in 2015, a two-year appointment recognizing teaching excellence, scholarship, and contributions to the Centre community. In 2015, she won a grant from the Kentucky Oral History Commission to interview World War II veterans. That same year, she also received an Enduring Questions grant to explore the question “What is a citizen?” from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Egge’s research interests include gender, ethnicity, and rurality in the American Midwest, historical constructions of political representation and citizenship, and historical intersections of agriculture, food production, hunting, and the environment. Her book, entitled Woman Suffrage and Citizenship in the Midwest, 1870-1920 (University of Iowa Press, 2018), explores the woman suffrage movement in the Midwest. In 2019, it was awarded the Gita Chaudhuri Prize from the Western Association of Women Historians and the Benjamin Shambaugh Award from the State Historical Society of Iowa.

At Centre, Egge teaches courses in late 19th- and early 20th-century American history, gender and women’s history, food history, and environmental history.

Egge has a B.A. in history and Spanish, and a B.S. in history education from North Dakota State University. She received her M.A. in history and Ph.D. in agricultural history and rural studies from Iowa State University.