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.

On October 1, 2021, Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder, Assistant Professor, Department of English, The University of Iowa, will present at the American Studies Floating Friday lecture. Her talk is entitled, “Labor of Love: Intimacy as Activism in Madeline Anderson’s I Am Somebody (1970)."

During the summer of 2021 three of our PhD students had the opportunity to work with local locations through the Obermann Center Humanities for Public Good intern program. Learn about their work here.

The Latina/x/o Migration and Education Working Group explores the contemporary knowledge production and experiences of migrants moving between the Americas.

Dr. Lina-Maria Murillo, assistant professor of Gender, Women's & Sexuality Studies and History, has received a 2021-22 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship.

McKrina Lopez, who is studying Marketing Analytics with a Minor in Latina/o/x Studies, was recognized as a "Tippie Top 21" in 2020-21.