Thomas D. Isern

Prof. Isern has served North Dakota History since 1992 as a research and teaching scholar, an academic administrator, and a public servant. A publishing scholar in rural and regional history, he also has a public persona as a public radio commentator (weekly statewide with the feature, Plains Folk, also packaged as a podcast for global distribution via NPR One) and as a folk balladeer (via a livestream, the Willow Creek Folk School). He is a partner in a 150-year-old family farm on the plains and is married to Dr. Suzzanne Kelley, Editor-in-Chief of North Dakota State University Press. His Labrador retriever, Tuch, is named for a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian.

History & folklore of the Great Plains of North America

History of agriculture

History of Australia & New Zealand

Methods of research & writing in History

HIST 103 & 104 (surveys in America History)

HIST 381 (Australia & New Zealand)

HIST 390 (methods of research & writing)

HIST 431/631 (North American Plains)

HIST 710, 730 (graduate seminars)

Gold medals for regional nonfiction, Independent Press Association and Independent Publishers Association

Frederick Jackson Turner Award, for scholarship in regional history

Western History Association

Agricultural History Association