Glenn Storey holds a joint appointment as associate professor of Classics and Anthropology. He has been at The University of Iowa since 1994. He teaches courses in classical languages, classical culture, archaeology and topics of the ancient world in general. He is currently working on aspects of Greek and Roman economies in contribution to a volume on pre-modern economies. He is also continuing work on issues of societal collapse, featuring Rome as an exemplar.

His publications include an edited volume, Urbanism in the Preindustrial World: Cross-Cultural Approaches, published by the University of Alabama Press in 2006. Professor Storey's research interests are Mediterranean archaeology, the interfacing of text and archaeology for the Greco-Roman world, Roman demography, and the economy of the Roman empire. He is involved in fieldwork in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and Gangivecchio in Sicily.

He received an AB in Ancient Greek from Columbia University, an Honours BA in Classical Greats from Oxford University, an MA in Anthropology from The Pennsylvania State University, an MA (honorary) from Oxford University, and a PhD in Anthropology from The Pennsylvania State University.