Contents: Acceptance letter to serve Admin. Computing Policy Advisory Board, Mar. 31, 1983; Acceptance letter to United Board committee, Apr. 8, 1980; Continuing life membership ALA, Oct. 31, 1988; Invitation to national advisory board Center for...
Leslie Bell was born in 1947 in Duke Ellington's hometown of Washington D.C. and grew up in the galleries and museums there. He studied with Christian Brothers in high school, ran track and cross-country and watched the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. Mr....
Joe Volk has more than three decades of experience working for peace and social justice. He played a key role in founding the Iraq Working Group and has served as a leader in the Washington Interreligious Staff Committee. He has lobbied Congress to...
Professor Wenfang Tang is the C. Maxwell and Elisabeth M. Stanley Family and Hua Hsia Chair of Chinese Culture and Institutions in the Political Science Department at the University of Iowa. His many academic publications examine comparative...
Manpreet Singh Anand has worked on international policy and development issues with a number of organizations, largely focused on U.S. diplomatic relations with South Asia. Mr. Anand served as a Senior Policy Advisor for the U.S. House of...
Michael Hogan became Provost of the University of Iowa in 2003; he is also the Wendell Miller Professor of History in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Prior to returning to Iowa, Dr. Hogan served in academic posts at The Ohio State...
After teaching nearly thirty years at Wheaton College, Mark Noll in 2006 became the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. His books and most of his courses deal with subjects related to the history of...
Irish writer Eavan Boland, Ida Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, presents the annual Paul Engle Memorial Reading. Boland, who attended an IWP residency in 1979, has published nine volumes of poetry, as well as two...
Kang Youngsook reads from her novel Rina. She made her literary debut with the short story collection [‘Shaken’] in (2002). Her other story collections are [‘Every Day is a Celebration’](2004) and [‘Black in Red’](2009). For her...
Christopher Merrill tells stories about international initiatives that have grown out of his role as director of the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program.
Merrill, a poet and journalist, took on the role of cultural diplomat in...