Faculty Fellows

Fall 2023

  • Armando Duarte, Dance, CLAS
  • Tong Li, Mathematics, CLAS
  • Matthew Brown, English, CLAS; Center for the Book

Spring 2024

  • Daniel Fine, Theatre Arts and Dance, CLAS
  • Rebecca Gonzalez, Spanish & Portuguese, CLAS

Humanities Symposium

Sports, Power, and Resistance: Legacies and Futures

Co-directors:

  • Thomas Oates, American Studies and Journalism & Mass Communication, CLAS
  • Travis Vogan, Journalism & Mass Communication and American Studies, CLAS

Working Groups

  • Algorithms and Culture Research
  • Antiracist Education: Changing Practices, Curriculum, and Policies
  • Black Visual Culture
  • Chinese Humanities and Arts Workshop
  • Circulating Cultures
  • Contemporary Literary and Film Theory
  • Creative Practice and Pedagogy
  • Decolonizing the Performance Classroom
  • Exploring Restorative Justice Practices in Higher Education for Community Building, Prevention, and Repairing Harm
  • Facilitating Difficult Dialogues
  • Film Curation and the Public Humanities
  • Food Studies
  • Global Media Studies
  • Immigrants in Iowa
  • Jewish Studies
  • Museum Futures
  • Opera Studies
  • Performance Studies
  • Podcasting across the University
  • Political Connections with the Ding Darling Archives
  • The Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry (POROI)
  • Race Workshop
  • Reconceptualizing the Mental Health Crisis in Higher Education: A Mindful Journey
  • Reproductive Justice
  • Research on and with Non-Profit Organizations
  • Scholarship of Public Engagement
  • Shakespeare 2023: The Folio at 400 and the Plays Now
  • Spanish Heritage Speakers in the Classroom
  • Teaching with Writing
  • Translation across the Humanities

Spelman Rockefeller-Funded Scholars and Projects

Working Groups:

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

Interdisciplinary Research Grant:

  • Chalk: A Dance Theater Exploration of Miscarriage and Motherhood

Interdisciplinary Research Grants

Anton & Olga

  • Jennifer Buckley, English and Theatre Arts
  • Dean Bakopoulos, Cinematic Arts

Chalk: A Dance Theater Exploration of Miscarriage and Motherhood

  • Kristin Marrs, Dance
  • Anne Marie Nest, Be Heard & Ask for More — Executive Communications Consulting

Exploring the Influence of Social Support on Diet-Related Improvements in the Fatigue, Quality of Life, and Mental Health of Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis and the Well-Being of Their Support Partners

  • Karin Hoth, Psychiatry
  • Farnoosh Shemirani, Internal Medicine
  • Linda Snetselaar, Epidemiology

 

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

Obermann Humanities Without Walls Faculty Externship on Graduate Career Diversity

  • Katy Ambrose, Music
  • Roxanna Curto, Spanish & Portuguese, French, Latin American Studies
  • Jose Fernandez, Latina/o/x Studies Program and Center for Worker Justice
  • Brady G’Sell, GWSS, Anthropology
  • Jiyeon Kang, Communication Studies
  • Lina-Maria Murillo, GWSS, History, Latina/o/x Studies
  • Andy Owens, Cinematic Arts
  • Diana Thow, Translation
  • Christine Zabala-Eisshofer, Higher Education and Student Affairs
  • Nonprofit mentors: John Engelbrecht (Public Space One), Rachel Rockwell and RaQuishia Harrington (The Neighborhood Centers), Katie Roche (Iowa City Public Library Friends Foundation)

Book Ends: Obermann/OVPR Book Completion Workshop

  • Katy Ambrose, School of Music
  • Mihailis Diamantis, College of Law
  • Jose Fernandez, Latina/o/x Studies, Division of Interdisciplinary Programs
  • Jennifer Kayle, Dance
  • Sarah Minor, English
  • Ana M. Rodriguez-Rodriguez, Spanish & Portuguese

Special Collaborations

Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry (POROI)

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

​​​​​​​Obermann Advisory Board, 2023-24

  • Cynthia Chou, Anthropology and Asian Studies, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
  • Mary Beth Easley, Theatre Arts, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
  • Claire Fox, English and Spanish & Portuguese, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
  • Blaine Greteman, English, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
  • Naomi Greyser, American Studies; English; and Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (ex-officio)
  • Cory Gundlach, Stanley Museum of Art
  • Ebonee Johnson, Community and Behavioral Health, College of Public Health
  • 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, Biological Sciences and Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
  • Roland Racevskis, French & Italian; 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