Heineman, Howard, Kelley and Warren honored

Congratulations to PhD Student Maddison Kuncl, who was selected as an Outstanding Teaching Assistant for 2023. 

Professor Emeritus Shelton Stromquist won the 2023 “Book of the Year Award” for labor history from the International Labor History Association (ILHA) for his book, Claiming the City: A Global History of Workers’ Fight for Municipal Socialism.

History Professor Sarah Bond is one of two faculty members appointed to the Holtsmark Associate Professorship. She was one of four CLAS faculty recently honored with new named professorships in classics.

Professor Michaela Hoenicke Moore will serve as Academic Director for the Academic Year Freiburg (AYF) program during the 2023-24 academic year.

Sam Boucher will go to Paraguay in 2024 to further his research on his dissertation, “Unlikely Brethren: Indigenous-Mennonite Cooperatives in Paraguay, 1940-1980.” 

A project proposed by University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences faculty members Colin Gordon and Ashley Howard was one of 26 in the nation to receive a highly competitive humanities grant from the Mellon Foundation.

A lecturer in the History department since 2017, and an instructor for the UI Center for the Book since 2014, Dr. Yale's teaching excellence was recognized with a 2021-22 CLAS Teaching Award. 

Haack is one of 17 University of Iowa students and alumni chosen from about 10,000 Fulbright Award applicants nationwide to serve as representatives of the U.S. State Department to teach English abroad and to undertake public health research and creative writing projects in 16 countries during the 2022-23 academic year.  

George Anderson, University of Iowa history alumnus, was honored as the 2020-2021 Teacher of the Year by the Iowa Department of Education. Anderson has been a teacher with Kennedy High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa for 13 years.

The history department's Samuel Boucher was among those honored as the top teaching assistants at the University of Iowa.

The Alpha of Iowa chapter is pleased to announce that 12 exceptional history students were invited to accept membership in the Phi Beta Kappa Society.

The purpose of the Hawkeye History Corps is to promote the study and appreciation of history for undergraduate majors and non-majors alike.

PhD Candidate Patrick Brady is spending 2022 focusing on the research and writing phases of his dissertation, “Loyalist Refugees in Revolutionary South Carolina, 1775-1782."