Luis Martín-Estudillo is Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Iowa, specializing in modern and contemporary Spanish literature and culture and visual studies. He is the Managing Editor of Hispanic Issues and Hispanic Issues Online. Among other recognitions, Martín-Estudillo has received the 2009-2010 Collegiate Teaching Award, the 2011-2013 Dean's Scholar Award, and three awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities. His latest books are The Rise of Euroskepticism: Europe and Its Critics in Spanish Culture (Vanderbilt University Press, 2018), winner of an NEH Open Book Award in 2020, and Despertarse de Europa. Arte, literatura, euroescepticismo (Cátedra, 2019). His current projects include a monograph on Francisco de Goya's treatment of reading.

Marvin has published widely on Italian opera of the nineteenth century, especially the music of Verdi and Rossini, focusing on cultural and social history, as well as textual criticism. Her work touches more specifically on topics including censorship, celebrity, performance practices, dissemination and reception of foreign opera in Britain, opera and print culture, operatic burlesques, iconography of singers in Victorian illustrated newspapers, and music during World War II. Co-editor of seven books (the most recent being Music in World War II: Coping with Wartime in Europe and the United States), she is also sole editor of The Cambridge Verdi Encyclopedia. In addition, Dr. Marvin is series editor for Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera and Associate General Editor for The Works of Giuseppe Verdi, the award-winning critical edition of the composer’s music.

I am an Assistant Professor in the Political Science department at the University of Iowa. I received my Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2015, specializing in International Relations and Political Methodology. My primary substantive research agenda focuses on the effectiveness of international mediation in intrastate wars. Other current projects explore the evolution of cooperation between combatants in civil wars.

I am a poet, nonfiction writer, translator, and editor, and much of my work concerns my travels abroad. I have written books on the 1990 World Cup in Italy, the wars of succession in the former Yugoslavia, and the spiritual home of Eastern Orthodox monasticism. As director of the International Writing Program, I have undertaken cultural diplomacy missions to more than fifty countries. And every fall I have the good luck to host thirty-some distinguished poets and writers from around the world.

Kristine L. Muñoz received Ph.D in 1989 from the University of Washington and has been at the University of Iowa since 1995. She has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Colombia for close to 40 years, focusing first on personal relationships and persuasion and more recently on counter-narratives of Medellín intended for public humanities audiences and objectives (see https//medellin.lib.uiowa.edu) . She received a Fulbright research and teaching award for Spring, 2022 to collaborate with colleagues at the Universidad de Antioquia to study a government-mandated peace course taught in public and private schools. In the Department of Spanish and Portuguese she teaches courses on the history and culture of Medellín, culture, language and health, storytelling, and health narratives.

I was trained in Pediatrics and genetics and have been on the Faculty since 1984. My clinical work was in caring for newborns and families with inherited disorders, I held appointments in the CCOM, CPH, COD, CON and CLAS and taught undergraduates, graduate students and medical students. I retain a very active research career and have been funded by NIH for over 30 years and directed the graduate PhD program in genetics for ten years. We played a substantial role in the development of the Human Genome Project, identified the first genes with defects causing cleft lip and palate, and am an author on over 530 peer-reviewed articles. I chaired two NIH study sections, was a member of the Scientific Council for the NHGRI and served on the Advisory Committee to the Director of NIH. I was an elected president of the 8000+ member American Society of Human Genetics, is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and a Fellow of the AAAS. Our research work is highly interdisciplinary and International. I took a leave of absence from 2014 to 2018 to serve as the Deputy Director for Family Health at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation where my work focused on building programs to address maternal and child health disorders in Africa and South Asia.

Ben Partridge is a Creative Media Specialist for International Programs with a background in marketing and community engagement. His work focuses on social media, graphic design, photography, and writing as a means to help promote department programming and celebrate student and faculty success stories.

Besides advising duties, Brandon's area of specialization includes intercultural training, where he oversees the Building Our Global Community certificate series, Engaging Across Cultures certificate program, the Bridge program, and special requests for individualized training sessions. Brandon serves as orientation coordinator, arranging content and schedules for orientation programs. Brandon holds a B.S. in Business Administration and Economics from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, and a Master's in Education with an emphasis on Student Affairs Administration from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.  He has studied in the United Kingdom, has studied Spanish, and has spent time in Costa Rica, Canada, Ireland, Spain, England, and Scotland.

Kay E. Ramey, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Learning Sciences and Educational Psychology in the University of Iowa’s College of Education. She earned her PhD in Learning Sciences from Northwestern University, an interdisciplinary MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago, and a BA in Psychology and Art Theory and Practice also from Northwestern. Her work focuses on centering youth voices and designing learning environments that support youth agency, interest and identity development, and real-world skills, such as adaptive problem-solving and resilience. She is particularly interested in how young people learn through making and in the material, spatial, and sociocultural aspects of learning. She sees in Anne Frank an exemplary story of youth learning and resilience and a template for elevating youth voices and encouraging self-expression through the creation of shared artifacts.

With Harvard B.A. (1970) and University of Michigan J.D. (1975). Reitz is currently the Edward L. Carmody Professor of Law and Director of the Masters (LLM) and Doctoral (SJD) Degree Programs at the College of Law and the Director of the Visiting Scholars Program. At Iowa since 1983 (full professor since 1988), Reitz teaches comparative law, introduction to U.S. law for foreign-trained lawyers, and administrative law and focuses his scholarship especially on (1) the way in which differences in countries’ political economies are correlated with differences in their legal systems, (2) the development of the rule of law, especially after communism or other authoritarian forms of government, and (3) comparative administrative law. Titular Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law; Past President of American Society of Comparative Law, 2010-2012. Permanent Visiting Professor, Zhejiang University Law School in Hangzhou, China (since 2008); Visiting Professor, Universities of Muenster (1994) and Freiburg (1996), Germany; and the Victoria University in Wellington (2002), New Zealand. Has lectured on U.S. and comparative law topics in China, Hungary, India, Nigeria, Poland, Rumania, Russia, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Vietnam.

In addition to standard student and scholar advising duties, Kevin coordinates the non-resident tax program each spring, overseeing the workshops providing tax assistance and the online Windstar tax program. He also oversees some SEVIS reporting duties including OPT employment reports and I-20s for students returning after an absence. He serves as the ISSS liaison to the organizations Friends of International Students, the International Women's Club, and the Iowa City Area Development group. Kevin holds a B.A. in Spanish from Luther College and an M.A. in Social Foundations of Education from the University of Iowa. Kevin has a passion for travel and for learning about the cultures of the students he works with. He has traveled broadly throughout Latin America, Europe, and Asia.

Morten Schlütter (PhD, Yale University) is Associate Professor and Departmental Executive Officer (Chair) of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Iowa, and the former Director of the University of Iowa Center for Asian and Pacific Studies. He is the author of How Zen Became Zen: The Dispute over Enlightenment and the Formation of Chan Buddhism in Song-Dynasty China (University of Hawai’i Press, 2008), which focuses on crucial developments within Chan [Jpn.: Zen] Buddhism that came to dominate Chinese monastic Buddhism by the twelfth century. He is the co-editor of Readings of the Platform Sūtra (Columbia University Press, 2012), and the author of many articles on Chinese Buddhism and Chan. He is currently working on a book manuscript that traces the evolution of Chinese Chan through different versions of the Platform Sūtra.

I'm interested in second language writing, especially ESL writing and writing in Spanish. I collect data in our writing center and use it to explore issues in composition and in second language acquisition. I'm interested in Latin American culture and literature and did a Fulbright in Ecuador. I have a BA in Spanish, a master's in linguistics/TESOL, and a PhD in English with a specialization in Rhetoric and Composition. 

Helen H. Shen, Professor and Interim Chair of the Department of Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures, The University of Iowa, USA. Currently she also serves as Chair for the SAT Subjest (Chinese) Test Committee, College Board; serves on the Editoral Board for the two journals: Chinese as a Second Language and Chinese as a Second Langauge Research.Her major research areas are Chinese L2 literacy development and reading education. Website: www.myweb.uiowa.edu/hshen

Maia Sheppard is an assistant professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning in the College of Education. Her research focuses on teaching difficult histories in secondary schools and social studies teacher education. Drawing on sociocultural theory, she examines the significance of identity, emotion, and place in social studies curriculum and teaching. She recently co-edited the book, Teaching Difficult Histories in Difficult Times: Pictures of Practice, and her work has been published in Teaching and Teacher Education, Theory and Research in Social Education, the Journal of Museum Education, and the Journal of Social Studies Research, among others.

Sujatha Sosale is interested in media development and social change in Global South countries, with a focus on South Asia and the southern Indian Ocean region. She has published in the areas of news and public affairs reporting about contemporary development, trade agreements in the news, national identity and news discourse at critical historical junctures, the political economy of the development of media technologies in colonial contexts, and media technology use in contemporary urban contexts. Her current research examines the use of mobile technologies in a remote rural region in South India.