Amy J. Rutenberg is an associate professor of history at Iowa State University. She earned her Ph.D. in American history with a focus in women’s and gender history from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research sits at the intersection of war, gender, activism, and civil-military relations, including the history of American women’s military service. She is the author of Rough Draft: Cold War Military Manpower Policy and the Origins of Vietnam-Era Draft Resistance (Cornell University Press, 2019) and editor of Conscription in the Twentieth Century: Coercion and Resistance in Global Perspective (University Press of Kansas, 2026). Her work has appeared in several edited volumes, Cold War History, The New York Times, and The Atlantic.

Amy also earned an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, taught high school social studies for several years, and now coordinates Iowa State’s secondary social studies education program. In this capacity, she has worked on lesson sets for the State Historical Society of Iowa and is the Grade 6–12 editor of www.teachingmilitaryhistory.com.