Susan Dickinson is a Senior Assistant Director in the Office of Admissions. She received her BA from the University of Northern Iowa and her MEd from Iowa State University before coming to the University of Iowa in 2017. Through her work in the Office of Admissions, she seeks to dismantle barriers in the college admission process to help all students see a place for themselves in higher education and to access a transformative education.

My work is in the study of rhetorical, psychological and communicative processes in personal relationships. After a PhD in Social Psychology, I moved to Communication Studies and finally Rhetoric. After founding the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, I edited it for 15 years and was also President of the International Network on Personal Relationships and cofounder of the Interpersonal Conferences on Personal Relationships, both of them international and interdisciplinary in emphasis.

Meenakshi Gigi Durham is Professor and Collegiate Scholar in the University of Iowa’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Florida. Her research addresses gender and sexuality in the media, emphasizing embodiment, intersectional identities, transnational feminisms, and sexual violence. Her articles have appeared in leading communication journals, and she serves on many editorial boards. Her books include MeToo: The Impact of Rape Culture in the Media, Technosex, The Lolita Effect, and Media and Cultural Studies: KeyWorks.  Among her numerous honors are the May Brodbeck Award Distinguished Achievement Award for Faculty and the President and Provost Award for Teaching Excellence from the University of Iowa, as well as the Teresa Award for the Advancement of Feminist Scholarship from the International Communication Association.

My interests include environmental humanities; urban studies with an emphasis on African-American, American Indian, and Asian American history and cultures; and environmental justice. Alternatives to binary thought and violence have always driven my theoretical and practical commitments.

My primary teaching and research areas are Family Law and International Family Law, with a particular interest in cross-border children's law and children's rights. I chair the board of the US branch of International Social Service (ISS-USA) and have attended treaty negotiation and review meetings in The Hague and elsewhere on the Hague Children's Conventions.

Professor Brian Farrell is a Lecturer in Law and Human Rights, Associate Director of the UI Center for Human Rights, and directs the undergraduate Human Rights Certificate program. He teaches international law, criminal law, and human rights courses. He is the director of the Citizen Lawyer Program and was a co-founder of the Innocence Project of Iowa. Professor Farrell also serves as an adjunct lecturer at the National University of Ireland Galway and is a member of the Iowa Supreme Court Access to Justice Commission.

I am a scholar of comparative literary and cultural studies whose research focuses on medieval Iberia. I am also an avid hiker whose current research project explores Christian, Jewish, and Islamic ‘medieval’ walking routes in Spain and Portugal, such as the Camino de Santiago, the Ruta del Califato, and Sephardic heritage itineraries. I am interested in the intersections between gender, race, religion, sexuality, place of origin, landscapes and belonging, as well as performance, cultures of fitness, memory studies, heritage tourism, foundational myths and national identity. I seek to promote inclusivity in my teaching, scholarship, and service.

Carl R. Follmer, M.A., Ph.D. is an associate professor of instruction, director of the Frank Business Communication Center, and an assistant department executive officer at the Tippie College of Business. His academic background is in German Studies and children's literature, and includes a dissertation investigating fascist propaganda aimed at children in Germany and Spain.  In his professional work, Carl teaches communication skills and develops communications programming throughout the Tippie College of Business.  A critical part of his teaching is helping students consider audience needs and concerns as they develop professional communication skills. He believes that Anne Frank's empowering message for children to document their lived experiences and become writers and thinkers has the ability to create a better community.

Claire F. Fox is Professor in the Department of English and holds a complimentary appointment in Spanish & Portuguese. Her interests include literary and cultural studies of the Americas, Latina/o/x and Latin American literature and culture, Mexican and U.S.-Mexican border arts and culture, visual culture, and cultural policy studies.

My specialization is early modern French literature, with a focus on poetry as well as the intersection of word and image. Most recently, I have worked on French antecedents in Shakespeare as well as expressions of obscenity in both Italian and French literature.

Peter Gerlach is assistant professor of instruction in the International Studies Program at the University of Iowa. He received his BA and MA degrees in English from Ripon College and the University of Northern Colorado, respectively. After serving in the US Peace Corps in Mongolia, he earned a PhD in Cultural Foundations of Education from Syracuse University where he conducted dissertation research on the lived experiences of international students at Grinnell College. Dr. Gerlach’s teaching areas include international studies, international education, refugee and immigrant studies, and community engaged learning. He serves on the board of directors at the Refugee and Immigrant Association, the planning committee of the Refugee Alliance of Johnson County, and was a member of the inaugural 2023-24 Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Higher Education Ambassador program. Dr. Gerlach is the recipient of the 2024 Outstanding Outreach and Public Engagement Award from the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences as well as the 2024 Presidents’ Civic Engagement Leadership Award from the UI Office of Community Engagement. He lives in Iowa City, IA with his wife and two children.

Research specialization is the history of eastern Africa, particularly Tanzania in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Have published books and volumes of collected essays on several aspects of the history of Tanzania. Have done extensive research in Tanzania, where I continue to work on a study of dissident politics in region of Iringa.

I received my PhD in English in 1995 from the University of Michigan, came to the University of Iowa the following year, and have been here ever since with two brief faculty exchanges at the Université de Montpellier. My recent scholarship and teaching explore the intersections of literary and environmental history, particularly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. I am also a co-PI on a project that applies methods of computational linguistics and geographical information science to the study of historical textual corpora.

I have a J.D. and taught Business, Law and Ethics in the Tippie College of Business for 30 years. I taught undergraduates (Iowa, London and Italy) and MBAs and taught in our Executive MBA programs in Iowa, Italy (CIMBA) and Hong Kong. I directed the Italy (CIMBA) program as well. My primary areas of research were law and ethics generally and whistleblowing and sexual harassment specifically. Served as undergraduate Dean in the Tippie College.