Chloe Angyal — Public Scholar
Chloe Angyal, PhD, is a journalist from Sydney, Australia who lives in Coralville, Iowa. She is a Contributing Editor at MarieClaire.com and the former Deputy Opinion Editor at HuffPost. Her writing about politics and pop culture has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Guardian, New York magazine, Reuters, and The New Republic.
Angyal is a Facilitator and Senior Fellowship Leader at The OpEd Project. Angyal has a PhD in Arts and Media from the University of New South Wales and a BA in Sociology from Princeton University. Her academic work focused on Hollywood romantic comedies; her doctoral thesis was about how the genre depicts gender, sex, and power.
Rodica Curtu
Rodica Curtu is Professor, Associate Chair, and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Mathematics. Her research interests are computation neuroscience, mathematical biology, and nonlinear dynamical systems.
Kendall Heitzman
Kendall Heitzman is Associate Professor in the Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures Department. He is currently researching two interconnected projects: he is interested in a group of outward-looking poets who came to prominence in the 1960s, some of whom spent some time at the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program (IWP), including Yoshimasu Gōzō and Shiraishi Kazuko. He has also been researching the history of Japanese writers in the IWP as well as the early days of the IWP in general.
Lucas Carr
Lucas Carr is Associate Professor in the Department of Health and Human Physiology. Dr. Carr directs the Behavioral Medicine Lab, which focuses on designing and testing physical activity interventions to advance the health and well-being of populations at risk for sedentary-related diseases. Dr. Carr also directs the Community Outreach Lab, which provides health coaching and health testing services to members of the community while also providing students with experiential learning opportunities.
Shuang Chen
Shuang Chen is an associate professor in the UI Department of History. As a historian of late imperial and modern China, her research interest encompasses social, economic, and political history, with an emphasis on exploring how the interplay of state and local institutions over the long term shaped modern Chinese society.
Juan Pablo Hourcade
Juan Pablo Hourcade is an Associate Professor at the University of Iowa's Department of Computer Science, UI3 Associate Director for Informatics Education, and a member of the Delta Center. His main area of research is Human-Computer Interaction, with a focus on the design, implementation and evaluation of technologies that support creativity, collaboration, well-being, healthy development, and information access for a variety of users, including children and older adults.
Jason Rantanen
Jason Rantanen is a Professor and Ferguson-Carslon Fellow in Law at the University of Iowa College of Law. He writes in the areas of patent law, federal courts, and empirical legal studies. Professor Rantanen has authored numerous articles and book chapters that address the law from both practical and theoretical perspectives.
Emerson Cram
Emerson Cram earned a PhD in Communication and Culture at Indiana University in 2015, with concentrations in Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, and Rhetoric and Public Culture. Dr. Cram’s scholarship examines intersections between queer and trans studies and the environmental humanities—exploring cultural geographies of gender, sexuality, violence, (dis)ability, and health/wellness.