This scholarship will be awarded to students demonstrating a commitment to partnering with and supporting Native American and Indigenous communities. This award is open to undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Iowa. This scholarship awards $500-1000, and up to two scholarships are awarded each academic year.

Dr. Kim Marra's The Pull of Horses receives Honorable Mention for the 2021 ATHE-ASTR (Association for Theatre in Higher Education – American Society for Theatre Research) Award for Excellence in Digital Theatre and Performance Scholarship, awarded each year to an individual or team that demonstrates innovation and rigor in the use of electronic/digital media for the purpose of producing or disseminating knowledge about theatre and performance.

Sport Studies students Carson Beck, Austin Hanson, and Chloe Peterson, along with faculty member Travis Vogan, participated in a Town Hall with Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren on November 1 to discuss some of the crucial issues the conference is facing. They were part of a select group of student chosen from the Big Ten schools to talk with Warren.

Anne Anlin Cheng is the author of The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief); Second Skin: Josephine Baker and the Modern Surface; and, most recently, Ornamentalism (which will provide the foundation for this talk). Focusing on the cultural and philosophic conflation between the "oriental" and the "ornamental," Ornamentalism offers an original and sustained theory about Asiatic femininity in western culture.

Join Carrie Schuettpelz as she discusses her new book project.

The Department of Anthropology, along with the School of Art & Art History and Native American & Indigenous Studies Program, are pleased to announce that as part of Native American Heritage Month, we are hosting a webinar presentation by Chicago-based Indigenous futurist, artist and architect Santiago X

Laura Graham (anthropology) will present an overview of her decades-long collaboration with Indigenous media among Lowland South American Native Peoples, focusing on work among A’uwẽ (Xavante) of central Brazil.

Join a virtual presentation by the Career Center on job searches and gap years for American studies and Sport studies students.

Angela Velez, author of the forthcoming YA novel, Lulu and Milago’s Search for Clarity, will be visiting U Iowa on Wednesday, October 27, 2021 to do a reading and workshop with undergraduate students.

We are pleased to share 2020-21 highlights from the Latina/o/x Studies Program at the University of Iowa.