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Study shows Gulf of Maine cooling for 900 years, then quickly warming since late 1800s

Alan Wanamaker, professor of geological and atmospheric sciences, is part of a team that is researching these climate trends.

August 10, 2022

Pamela Riney-Kehrberg awarded Gladys L. Baker Lifetime Achievement Award

Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, Distinguished Professor of History, was recently awarded the Gladys L. Baker Lifetime Achievement Award from the Agricultural History Society (AHS). The Gladys L. Baker Lifetime Achievement Award is the highest honor granted by the AHS. The AHS was founded more than a century ago to promote the…

August 10, 2022

Matt Sivils publishes book chapter

Matt Sivils, professor in the Department of English, has published a book chapter “Monstrous Stewardship and the Plantation in Chesnutt’s ‘The Goophered Grapevine.’” The chapter was published in the book “Stewardship and the Future of the Planet: Promise and Paradoxes” which was released by Routledge in July…

August 4, 2022

Matt Sivils publishes journal article in ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews

Matt Sivils, professor in the Department of English, has published a journal article in ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews (ANQ). The article “‘That Noisome and Contagious Receptacle’: Quarantine and Horror in Charles Brockden Brown’s ‘The Man at Home,’” was published in the July…

August 4, 2022

Allison Durazzi presents at International Professional Communication Conference in Ireland

Allison Durazzi (Ph.D. ‘23 Rhetoric and Professional Communications) recently presented at the International Professional Communication Conference at the University of Limerick in Ireland. The conference is sponsored by IEEE’s Professional Communication Society. Durazzi’s talk, “The Case for Supplemental Style Guides,” demonstrated the value of using community-authored guides when…

August 3, 2022

Tracy Lucht awarded Best Article prize by American Journalism Historians Association

American Journalism, the peer-reviewed quarterly journal of the American Journalism Historians Association, awarded its 2022 Best Article prize to Tracy Lucht, associate professor in the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University. This annual award honors the best of the best scholarship that was published in…

August 3, 2022

Ann Oberhauser delivers keynote at International Conference on Crisis, Recovery and Gender

Ann M. Oberhauser, professor in the Department of Sociology, delivered a keynote address at the International Conference on Crisis, Recovery and Gender. The July conference was held at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain and was organized by the International Geographical Union Commission on Gender and Geography. The…

August 3, 2022

Apprentices hone their writing, speaking skills through ISU-John Deere partnership

Department of English faculty members developed the curriculum and serve as on-site instructors for student communication trainings.

August 2, 2022