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