Dr. Eric Vázquez, assistant professor of American studies and Latina/o studies, has an essay in the Duke University Press Public Culture publication.

David Andrews, Professor, Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland, will present "Articulating Trump's America: Sport, Politics, and the Culture Wars" on May 6, 2022 at 4:00 p.m. CST. Register in advance for this meeting.

Join us for a presentation by Meskwaki Language Preservation Director Wayne Pushetonequa.

We are planning to tie in our 50th Anniversary Celebration with our 15th Annual Latinx In Action Celebration Week (newly named, LNACC in Action Week) which will take place the week of March 27 - April 2.

Presentation will be held March 1, 2022 at 6:30 p.m. at Art Building West on the University of Iowa Campus.

Natalie Robertson (PhD 1996) is pleased to announce that the story of America's last slave ship and the fate of her 110 West African captives will air on the National Geographic Channel on Monday, February 7th at 10pm (EST). The film will begin streaming on Hulu and Disney+ the following day. The film is based, in part, on her book entitled, The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Making of AfricaTown, USA: Spirit of Our Ancestors whose research was funded by the Stanley-UI Foundation and PASALA (Project for the Study of Art and Life in Africa).

Raquel Valladolid is a second-year student from Sioux City, Iowa, majoring in Spanish and English and Creative Writing with minors in Latina/o/x studies, communication studies, and translation for global literacy.

Dr. Naomi Greyser had a piece published in the December 21, 2021 Los Angeles Review of Books about being Jewish at Christmastime. "O Night Divine: Observing Christianity" can be found here.

Thomas Oates (American studies and Journalism and Mass Communication) is the 2021 winner of the Outstanding SSJ Article Award for his article, “Where I’m From”: Jay-Z’s “Hip Hop Cosmopolitanism,” Basketball, and the Neoliberal Politics of Urban Space (Vol 37 issue 3). In the article Dr. Oates make nuanced connections between hip-hop culture/Jay-Z and sport, presents a robust methodology, cleverly weaves various aspects of the analysis together, and tells an extremely engaging story about Jay-Z, sport, urban space, and neoliberalism.

Lina-Maria Murillo, assistant professor, Departments of Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies, and History, will present at the American Studies Floating Friday lecture series. Her talk is entitled, “La Margaret Sanger of the Border: Guadalupe Arizpe de La Vega, Population Control, and Mexico's Maquiladora System.”