Steven Wagner is Professor of History and former head of the Social Science Department at Missouri Southern State University. He teaches a variety of courses in twentieth-century United States history, and in 2012 was honored as Missouri Southern's "Outstanding Teacher" by the Missouri Southern Foundation.
Wagner is the author of Eisenhower for Our Time and Eisenhower Republicanism: Pursuing the Middle Way. He also contributed to A Companion to Dwight D. Eisenhower.
He received his PhD in history from Purdue University in 1999.