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Foregrounding the Cow: Emily Morgan’s Interdisciplinary Symposium Reimagines Animal-Human Relationships

May 9, 2025

Foregrounding the Cow: Emily Morgan’s Interdisciplinary Symposium Reimagines Animal-Human Relationships

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Hans Klein-Hewett: Advancing Rural Park Research with Support from the CEAH

March 12, 2025

For Hans Klein-Hewett, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, rural parks are more than just green spaces—they are vital to the sustainability and quality of life in rural communities.

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Sarah Dees: The Materialization of Native American Religions:The Smithsonian, Settler Colonialism, and the Study of Indigenous Lifeways

December 8, 2024

Sarah Dees earned her PhD in Religion in the Americas from Indiana University in 2015 and obtained a Professional Certificate in Museum Studies from Northwestern University in 2018.

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Luana Lamberti Nunes: Exploring how the Atlantic slave trade affected the development of Helvécia Portuguese, an Afro-Brazilian dialect spoken in Helvécia, Bahia, Brazil.

May 20, 2024

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Jennifer Drinkwater: The What’s Good Project: Finding Evidence for Hope

April 26, 2024

The What's Good Project, initiated by Drinkwater in 2018, aims to highlight the positive aspects and assets within communities across the United States through interviews, stories, and paintings.
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Cristina Pardo-Ballester: Translating Spanish Comedic and Fantasy Genres into English

March 22, 2024

Creativity and innovation can empower the art of translation:

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Evan Hume: Sonic Interventions: Digitally Altered Photographic Prints

March 1, 2024

Evan Hume's Sonic Interventions series inspires creativity by transforming photographs of signal surveillance and supersonic technologies into sound-based art.

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Johnny DiBlasi: Transcoded Ecologies

February 14, 2024

DiBlasi creates site-specific artworks that fuse sensing technologies and biodata into public architecture, promoting ecological consciousness.

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Jeremy Withers: Birding English: Exploring the History of a Language through 50 Birds

February 14, 2024

This project aims to investigate the role of birds and birding, which is the practice of observing and identifying birds, in shaping the English language.

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Alex Braidwood (Graphic Design) World Listening Day 2023 – A convening at Iowa State University

November 28, 2023

The World Listening Project is devoted to fostering an understanding of the world and its natural environment, societies, and cultures through practices of listening and field recording.

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Jeff Bremer: A New History of Iowa

October 12, 2023

A New History of Iowa is the first comprehensive survey of the state since 1996. It is the result of nine years of research and uses hundreds of new sources to tell the state’s story.

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Dr. Christopher Hopkins Received 2022 MacDowell Fellowship for Galilei Dialogues Project

March 21, 2023

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Dr. Brian Behnken's New Book About Interactions Between Mexican-Origin People and Law Enforcement from the 1830s to 1930s

December 15, 2022

Dr. Brian Behnken's New Book About Interactions Between Mexican-Origin People and Law Enforcement from the 1830s to 1930s

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Cason Murphy: Digital Residency

November 17, 2022

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Cason Murphy (Music and Theatre): Digital Residency

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Mônica Haddad: Job Training and Climate Justice: Paving the Way for Disadvantaged Residents in Urban Areas

November 15, 2022

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Mônica Haddad (Community and Regional Planning): Job Training and Climate Justice: Paving the Way for Disadvantaged Residents in Urban Areas

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Jeremy Best: “Interwar Games: Strategy and Play in Germany, 1919-1933”

November 8, 2022

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Jeremy Best (History): “Interwar Games: Strategy and Play in Germany, 1919-1933”

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Michèle A. Schaal: Symposium Grant for the 10th Women in French (WIF) biennial conference “Margins: Voices and Pathways”

October 7, 2022

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Michèle A. Schaal (World Languages & Cultures): Symposium Grant, “Margins: Voices and Pathways”

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Jeff Bremer: A New History of Iowa, 1673-2020

August 31, 2022

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Jeff Bremer (History): A New History of Iowa, 1673-2020

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Megan Myers: Border of Lights

January 1, 2022

Megan Myers, assistant professor of Spanish & U.S. Latino/a Studies used her CEAH Research Grant to support an anthology she is co-editing that reflects on the Border of Lights organization and its mission. This event took place in October in Dajabón, Dominican Republic and Ouanaminthe, Haiti.

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Firat Erdim: Peregrine Projections: Camino de Santiago

January 1, 2022

2016 Research Grant
Firat Erdim, assistant professor of Architecture, utilized funds from his CEAH Research Grant to begin a new project.

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