Dr. Justin Dolan Stover, is Associate Professor and Department Chair of History and has been at ISU since 2012. In 2024, he was recognized as Idaho State University’s Distinguished Researcher. Dr. Stover holds degrees from Trinity College Dublin (Ph.D.), University College Dublin (M.A.), and Central Michigan University (B.S.). His work explores the intersection of violence, political life, and environmental history in modern Ireland, as well as the broader history of war and revolution in Europe. His first book, published in 2022, Enduring Ruin: Environmental Destruction during the Irish Revolution, surveyed diverse Irish landscapes as both platforms for revolutionary revolt and victims of state retaliation. It was reviewed by The Irish Times and the Irish Literary Supplement.
Stover’s body of scholarship has explored a variety of topics, including political prisoner culture, sexual violence in revolutionary conflict, and environmental destruction in war, which have appeared in leading journals and other publications. He has undertaken several research fellowships at universities throughout Ireland, and recently concluded a sabbatical fellowship at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Amsterdam.
