Fellows-in-Residence

Fall 2022

  • Brady G'Sell, Anthropology and Gender, Women's, & Sexuality Studies, CLAS

Spring 2023

  • Carolyn Colvin, Teaching & Learning, College of Education
  • Sylvia Mikucki-Enyart, Communication Studies, CLAS

Humanities Symposium

Frequencias: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora

Co-directors:

  • Christopher Harris, Cinematic Arts
  • Cristiane Lira, Romance Languages, University of Georgia
  • Janaína Oliveira, Federal lnstituto of Rio de Janeiro

Working Groups

  • Algorithms and Culture Research
  • Black Visual Culture
  • Creative-Critical Practice and Undergraduate Pedagogy
  • Chinese Humanities and Arts
  • Circulating Cultures
  • Contemporary Literary and Film Theory
  • Decolonizing Acting in the Classroom
  • Facilitating Difficult Dialogues
  • Food Studies
  • Global Media Studies
  • Health Humanities at UI
  • Iowa Integrated Pediatric Pain and Comorbidity
  • Jewish Studies
  • Museum Futures
  • Performance Studies
  • Podcasting across the University
  • Popular Pedagogy
  • Redesigning Graduate Student Support
  • Scholarship of Public Engagement

  • Shakespeare 2023: The Folio at 400 and the Plays Now

  • Spanish Heritage Speakers in the Classroom

  • Teaching with Writing
  • Transform(ED) Justice Collaboratory
  • Translation across the Humanities
  • Well-Being in Higher Education

Spelman Rockefeller-Funded Scholars and Projects

Working Groups:

  • Antiracist Education: Changing Practices, Curriculum, and Policies
  • Reproductive Justice

Mellon Sawyer Seminar, 2022-23

Racial Reckoning through Comics

Co-directors:

  • Corey Creekmur, Co-Director (Cinematic Arts; English; and Gender, Women's, & Sexuality Studies)
  • Ana Merino, Co-Director (Spanish & Portuguese)
  • Rachel Williams, Co-Director (Division of Liberal Arts, University of North Carolina School of the Arts)
  • Esther Claudio, Postdoctoral Scholar
  • Nicole Amato, Graduate Research Assistant (Literacy, Language, and Culture)
  • Matt Griffin, Graduate Research Assistant (Communication Studies)

Interdisciplinary Research Grants

Breastfeeding for Mothers with Multiple Sclerosis

  • Christine Gill, Neurology
  • Pamela Mulder, Nursing
  • Solange Saxby, Internal Medicine

Ethnography of Nutrition Procurement Strategies of Recently Hospitalized Adults in Rural Iowa Counties

  • Carly Nichols, Geographical & Sustainability Sciences
  • Hilary Mosher, Internal Medicine

Flame Sonification and Flame-Based Audio Effect Processing

  • Jean-Frani;:ois Charles, School of Music
  • Albert Ratner, Mechanical Engineering
  • Frederick Skiff, Physics & Astronomy

Healthy Aging across the Life Course: Engaging Multigenerational Families Living with Chronic Conditions

  • Ebonee Johnson, College of Public Health
  • Duhita Mahatmya, College of Education
  • Kimberly Dukes, Internal Medicine

Just Crushing: A Demolition Derby

  • Allison Rowe, Teaching & Learning
  • Maia Sheppard, Teaching & Learning
  • Nancy Nowacek, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ruinous Gods: Suites for Sleeping Children — An Opera

  • Lisa Schlesinger, Theatre Arts
  • Layale Chaker, Independent composer

Mellon Humanities for the Public Good: An Integrative, Collaborative, Practice-Based Humanities Graduate Program

  • Teresa Mangum, P.I., Gender, Women's, & Sexuality Studies and English

Mellon Humanities Without Walls: Consortium Partner and Sub-Award

  • Teresa Mangum, P.I., Gender, Women's, & Sexuality Studies and English

Book Ends: Obermann/OVPR Book Completion Workshop

  • Paula Amad, Cinematic Arts
  • Eric Vazquez, American Studies

Special Collaborations

Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry (POROI)

  • Naomi Greyser, English; American Studies; and Gender, Women's, & Sexuality Studies

​​​​​​​Obermann Advisory Board, 2022-23

  • Jennifer Buckley, English, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
  • David Cwiertny, Civil & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Mary Beth Easley, Theatre Arts, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
  • Claire Fox, English and Spanish & Portuguese, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
  • Amanda Haertling Thein, Graduate College and College of Education
  • Brandi Janssen, Occupational & Environmental Health, College of Public Health
  • Lauren Lessing, UI Stanley Museum of Art
  • Kristy Nabhan-Warren, Office of the Vice President for Research; Religious Studies and Gender, Women's, & Sexuality Studies, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (ex-officio)
  • Maurine Neiman, Biology, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
  • Roland Racevskis, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Administration (ex-officio)
  • Victor Ray, Sociology & Criminology and African American Studies, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
  • Stephen Warren, History and American Studies, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences