In order to support the needs of gifted and talented learners, I work primarily with educators who want to better understand best practices in gifted education. I teach or supervise courses that explore the identification of gifted learners and the curriculum and programming that meets their needs. All coursework aligns with one or more sets of national standards in the field as provided by the National Association of Gifted Children, although work with international educators has to be responsive to their settings. My research interests include attitudes of teachers toward talented children, and how those attitudes can expand to include essential practices such as the acceleration of high-ability learners.

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.

I am a family physician and geriatrician who has worked with colleagues in Russia since 1994, establishing a family medicine residency in1997 through USAID funding. Initially with the Medical Academy of Postgraduate Studies and now with the Northwestern Medical University in St Petersburg we have collaborated on teaching and research activities with a focus on geriatric medicine. Published research included comparative studies among US, Russian, Korean and Indian cohorts about late life depression, functioning and palliative care.

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.

My research focuses on early-modern French studies (1650 to 1800) and can be divided into three interdisciplinary areas: music and opera, theories of language, and aesthetics. My professional knowledge base extends to internationalization strategies, the global higher education landscape, and academic leadership.

Professor Stern is the author of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: An Introduction (CUP, 2004), and Wittgenstein on Mind and Language (OUP, 1995) and has edited several books on Wittgenstein. Thanks to a fellowship from the NEH for 2020-2021, he is currently working on the first complete translation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and its German manuscript sources. His other research and teaching interests include the history of analytic philosophy, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, philosophy and computing and digital humanities.

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.

Dr. Catherine Lammert is a postdoctoral research scholar in the Department of Teaching and Learning at the University of Iowa. She earned her PhD in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in Language and Literacy Studies at the University of Texas at Austin in 2019. Her dissertation titled Inquiry, Advocacy, and Practice-Based Research: Transformative Possibilities in Literacy Preservice Teacher Education explored ways to design and scale programs that support new teachers' racial literacy. Her current scholarship focuses on activist literacy teaching across the disciplines and teacher adaptiveness.

Barnhardt’s research focuses on how universities contribute to democracy and civic life, domestically and internationally, through the lens of university governance, administration, and policy and politics. This focus has prompted her to examine: campus-based activism and mobilization, stakeholder tactics, university leaders' public advocacy, campus climate perceptions, and private foundation activity in the higher education sector. She teaches graduate courses on higher education administration, policy, organizational behavior and management in postsecondary institutions, and research methods.

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.

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 research is interdisciplinary as it circulates at the crossroads of Francophone Studies (cultural theory, cinematic, visual, and performing arts of the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean, and West Africa); Suzanne Césaire; postcolonial ecocriticism; slave memorials; comparative postcolonial museum studies; critical ocean studies; intangible cultural heritage in the Global South and UNESCO.