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  • Jeremy Best appears on “History Against the Grain”

    Jeremy Best, assistant professor in the Department of History, appeared on the podcast “History Against the Grain.” Best discussed his recent book “Heavenly Fatherland” as well as his impressions, as a German historian, on white nationalism and insurrectionary attempts at the Capitol. A link to the January 29…

    February 1, 2021

  • Jeremy Best publishes book

    Jeremy Best, assistant professor in the Department of History, recently published a book. “Heavenly Fatherland: German Missionary Culture and Globalization in the Age of Empire” was published by the University of Toronto Press. For additional information, click here.

    January 21, 2021

  • Amy Erica Smith co-authors Washington Post article

    January 20, 2021

  • Claus Kadelka develops COVID-19 model that factors in people’s social interactions more realistically

    ISU math professor Claus Kadelka says early on in the pandemic he noticed many COVID-19 models were based on the assumption people engage in random social mixing. Along with a graduate student, Kadelka developed a model that takes into account that most people practice homophily. This is the tendency to…

    January 19, 2021

  • Swanner published in Earth-Science Reviews

    The biogeochemistry of ferruginous lakes and past ferruginous oceans Abstract Anoxic and iron-rich (ferruginous) conditions prevailed in the ocean under the low-oxygen atmosphere that occurred through most of the Archean Eon. While euxinic conditions (i.e. anoxic and hydrogen sulfide-rich waters) became more common in the…

    November 18, 2020

  • David A. M. Peterson publishes article in the British Journal of Political Science

    David A.M. Peterson, professor in the Department of Political Science and the Lucken Professor of Political Science, published an article in the British Journal of Political Science. The article, “Macrointerest” was published online by Cambridge University Press. The British Journal of Political Science (BJPolS) is a broadly…

    November 18, 2020

  • Amy Erica Smith quoted in New York Times article

    Amy Erica Smith, an associate professor in the Department of Political Science, was quoted in a November 16 New York Times article, “As Brazil’s Covid Crisis Eases, Bolsonaro Sees Rising Popularity.”…

    November 17, 2020

  • Michele Schaal publishes chapter in “Transgression(s) in Twenty-First Century Women’s Writing in French”

    Michele Schaal,associate professor of French and women’s and gender studies, has published the following book chapter: “Overstepping and Blurring Boundaries: Queer(ing) Autofiction in Wendy Delorme’s La Mere, la Sainte et la Putain.” The chapter appears in the book, “Transgression(s) in Twenty-First Century Women’s Writing in French” which is…

    November 13, 2020