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."

Congratulations to PhD candidate Greg Rozsa, who has won the Walter Rundell Award of the Western History Association. In recognition of the late Walter Rundell, Jr.’s commitment to graduate education in the field of Western History, the Western History Association offers a graduate student award for $1500 to a doctoral candidate for work on their dissertation in western history.

Warmest congratulations to Susan Birrell, Professor of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies and American Studies, who has been named the 2018 recipient of the Jean Y. Jew Women’s Rights Award. This award is made by the University of Iowa Women’s Resource and Action Center and the Council on the Status of Women in honor of Jew and others who demonstrate outstanding effort or achievement in improving the status of women on campus.

Whaley's research was mentioned in the New York Times article about the film Black Panther, her poem "Whispers and Lies" has been nominated for a Rhysling poetry award, was interviewed by ABC News for Black Superhero Week, and she performed the black history month keynote address at the University of Texas.

American Studies PhD student and GWSS graduate certificate student Diane Williams is featured in new video about her archival research in the Iowa Women's Archives.