Education
PhD, Art History, University of Chicago
MA, Art History, University of Chicago
MFA, Photography, Rhode Island School of Design
BA, Comparative Literature, Princeton University

Research Interests
The intersection of image-making with modernity which includes research on photography, early film, and American painting.

Contact Information
Phone: (515) 294-8422
Email: egodbey@iastate.edu
Office: 388 Design

Mailing Address
Art and Design Department
146 College of Design
Ames, IA, 50011

• The History of City Parks in Encyclopedia of American Material Culture, 01/27/2006
• Train Accidents on Demand: Thickening Time, 10/13/2005
• The Monstrous and the Uncanny: Macabre Art Reconsidered, 10/26/2006
• 2006 CEAH Fellowship for Scholarship and Creative Activity, 06/03/2006
• 2006 Faculty Incentive Grant, 06/03/2006
• Disaster Tourism and the Melodrama of Authenticity: Revisiting the 1889 Johnstown Flood, 09/01/2006
• Society for the History of Technology Grant, 08/04/2006
• Betting on Destruction: Wrecking Trains, Planes, and Automobiles, 10/14/2006
• Invited lecture, Franklin and Marshall College: Postcards, Esperanto, and the Wish for Universal Language, 04/30/2009
• National Endowment for the Humanities Chair, 09/01/2008
• Cornell University, Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst Summer Fellowship, 06/27/2008
• The Civil War in Stereo, 02/28/2009
• "Depictions of Disaster," TV Appearance, 12/08/2008
• Craft at the Crossroads, 10/12/2008
• Tragic Tourism’s Visual Traces, 09/03/2008
• Speed and Destruction at the Fair, 03/20/2008
• “Picture Frames: Imaging and Imagining America” , 11/13/2007
• Postcards circa 1900: Traffic in Images, 01/11/2007
• The Postcard as Photographic Esperanto, 09/21/2007