Tyler Priest
Associate Professor of History
University of Iowa
Speaker
Biography
Tyler Priest is associate professor of history at the University of Iowa. He is the author of the award-winning book, The Offshore Imperative: Shell Oil’s Search for Petroleum in Postwar America (Texas A&M, 2007), and Offshore Oildom: America’s Energy Expansion into the Ocean (LSU, 2026). He has published in the Journal of American History, Environmental History, Enterprise & Society, the Wall Street Journal, Politico, and Science. In 2010 he served as a senior policy analyst on the President’s National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling.