Lisa Ortiz (Sawyer Mellon Post Doctoral Fellow) and Kristy Nabhan-Warren (Religious Studies and GWSS) have both done research on meatpacking plants and the rural Latin/x communities surrounding them. In this conversation, the scholars discuss the role of churches during the COVID-19 outbreak and how workers are using social media to communicate.

Latina/o Studies Minor, Naomi Marroquin, is showcased in the Dare to Discover campaign and has a banner highlighting her research on Washington Street in downtown Iowa City.

Kim Marra, Professor of American Studies and Theatre Arts (with affiliate status in Gender, Women's & Sexuality Studies) has been named a Collegiate Fellow by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Ashley Loup, PhD student in American studies, has received a 2019 Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio Summer Fellowship.

Chris Henderson is one of four College of Liberal Arts and Sciences graduate students who have received a 2019-20 Marcus Bach Fellowship for Graduate Students in the Humanities. The award, taken during the fall 2019 semester, will allow Chris to complete research on his dissertation "Pleasurable Labors: Fandom, Community, and the Contested Performance of Place." Congratulations, Chris!

The new issue of American Studies (Volume 57, number 3, published January 16, 2019) is out -- the "Food Issue" guest edited by Lauren Rabinovitz. The volume, with an introduction by Professor Rabinovitz, contains a heterogeneous mix of articles approaching food in American culture by considering the roles of food in immigration history and in histories of the counter-culture of the 1960s, representations of food in art and literature, food and popular culture, and takes on contemporary political concerns regarding slaughterhouses as factory food businesses and the sociological post-incarceration employment in food businesses.

A conversation with Dr. Jennifer Sterling, lecturer in Sport Studies, is featured in the Fall 2018 Voice from the Prairie publication of Humanities Iowa. She is one of their newest Speakers Bureau members and discusses the story of Six-on-Six Basketball and Girls' and Women's Sport in Iowa.

Deborah Whaley was interviewed about her book Black Women in Sequence by the podcast, "This is not a pipe."