Dr. Isaac Land
Education
- Ph.D. - History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - 1999
- M.A. - History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - 1993
- B.A. - History, Oberlin College - 1992
Awards and Honors
- Caleb Mills Distinguished Teaching Award - 2020
Licensures and Certifications
Teaching Interests
- HIST 200 How Historians Ask and Answer Questions<br>HIST 355 Early Modern Europe<br>HIST 358 Atlantic History<br>HIST 466 Modern Britain
Intellectual Contributions
- "The Coastal History Blog" - 2013
- "Port Towns and the Paramaritime" - Routledge - 2020
- Sea Visibility and the Anxious Coastal Gaze - Global Environment: A Journal of Transdisciplinary History - 2021
Professional Service
- Role: Editor, Journal Editor for Peer-Reviewed Journal - Coastal Studies & Society 2020
Dr. Land has taught at Indiana State since 2005.
PhD (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
In recent years, Dr. Land has been very involved in developing and promoting the new subfield of coastal history. He introduced the term in a 2007 review essay, "Tidal Waves: The New Coastal History," that appeared in the Journal of Social History.
For a 2016 update, see Coastal History: Who, What, and Why?
"Firths and Fjords: A Coastal History Conference" took place in Dornoch, Scotland in March 2016, hosted by UHI (the University of the Highlands and Islands).
The first book on coastal history appeared in 2017, edited by David Worthington: The New Coastal History: Cultural and Environmental Perspectives from Scotland and Beyond.
For ongoing updates on the progress of coastal history as a subfield, you can follow Dr. Land's The Coastal History blog , which is hosted by the Port Towns and Urban Cultures group at the University of Portsmouth. His 2016 article, "Antagonistic Tolerance and Other Port Town Paradoxes," is available without a paywall. A chapter, “Port Towns and the Paramaritime,” is forthcoming in The Ashgate Research Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds, 1400-1800.
Dr. Land's first book was War, Nationalism, and the British Sailor, 1750-1850 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). He continues to publish in this area when opportunity permits; see for example the long review essay, "New Scholarship on the Press Gang" (part 1) (part 2) and the web article "Gender History: Inclusion versus Integration" that appeared on the website Global Maritime History. A chapter entitled “'Each Song Was Just Like a Little Sermon': Dibdin’s Victorian Afterlives” appeared in Charles Dibdin and Late Georgian Culture, from Oxford University Press. He wrote the Epilogue for the edited volume Martial Masculinities, just out from Manchester University Press this year.
He reviews books for Journal of Modern History, the Journal of British Studies, and Victorian Studies but also for Mariner's Mirror and the International Journal of Maritime History.
In 2016, Dr. Land co-led an ISU Study Abroad group to Ghana for two weeks. ISU photographer Tony Campbell accompanied the group; an extensive collection of his pictures can be found here and a "best of," shorter version is here.
Dr. Land helped on the design and conceptual work behind the College of Arts and Sciences Community Semester, a program of outreach events that has attracted attention across the state from a number of peer institutions. He served as the coordinator of the Community Semester in 2015 and 2016. In 2016, the Community Semester kicked off with A Night at the Museum and included a series of TED-style talks. Here is Dr. Land's: "What is the opposite of genocide?"
He is also actively involved with the CANDLES Museum. He has been to Auschwitz twice with CANDLES groups, the second time providing interpretive commentary on the bus between Krakow and the concentration camp site. He blogged about the experience for the Museum website: "The Holocaust and Public Memory in Poland."