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CEAH fall 2008 programming series: Sustaining the Earth: Public Scholarship in the Arts and Humanities

Congratulations to Chelsey Olsen, second year graduate student in the Department of Architecture, for winning the 2008 Phyllis J. Lepke Endowed Graduate Award.


The Imagining Iowa Public Scholarship Grant awardees are:

  • Carl Herndl, Professor, Rhetoric and Professional Communication
  • Jean Goodwin, Associate Professor, Speech Communication
  • Lee Honeycutt, Associate Professor, Rhetoric and Professional Communication
  • Greg Wilson, Assistant Professor, Rhetoric and Professional Communication


  • The award, granted jointly by CEAH and the LAS College, will be used by this group of scholars to map the rhetorical terrain of the emerging bioeconomy in Iowa.
    For a description of this project, visit our projects page.



    Congratulations to our
    2008 CEAH Fellows!


    Chosen from a competitive pool of applicants, these ISU scholars are the recipients of the 2008 CEAH Fellowships for Scholarship and Creative Activity.

    • Kevin Amidon, World Languages and Cultures
      The Applied Science of Cultural Value: Eugen Fischer, Biological Mendelism, and the Invention of Apartheid
    • Michael Bailey, History
      Superstition in the Late Middle Ages: A Crisis of Belief
    • Amy Bix, History
      Creating "Chicks Who Fix": Women, Technical Knowledge, and Home Repair, 1920-2007
    • Paula J. Curran, Art and Design
      A Designing Woman's Guide to Typographic Terms, Paper Selection, Commerical Printing, and Other Designing Endeavors
    • April Eisman, Art and Design
      Neo Rauch and the "New Leipzig School" in Context
    • Jean Goodwin, English
      Dilemmas of Expertise: The Rhetorical Design of Appeals to Authority in Sustainable Agriculture
    • Michael Golec, Art and Design Networks of Power: Rural Electrification and the Art of Marketing Electricity
    • Rachel Haywood-Ferreira, World Languages and Cultures
      The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction
    • David Hollander, History
      Dependency and Self-Sufficiency in the Greco-Roman Household
    • Ingrid Lilligren, Art and Design
      Accumulations: Crystalline Glazes on Ceramic Sculpture
    • Sara B. Marcketti, AESHM
      Design Piracy: Examination of Design Patents from 1890 to 1941
    • Chrisy Moutsatsos, Anthropology/Women's Studies
      Global Gaze, Local Bodies: An Ethnography of Consumption and Femininity in Urban Greece
    • Constance Post, English
      Observations on the Real Rights of Women and Other Writings of Hannah Mather Crocker
    • Mary R. Sawyer, Philosophy and Religious Studies
      The Black Church Since 1968: Forty Years of Wilderness
    • Linda S. Shenk, English
      Elizabeth I, Learned Queen: Sovereignty, Court Poetry, and International Politics
    • Kristin Vander Lugt, World Languages and Cultures
      The Return of the Haunted Screen: The German Horror Film after 1945


    • Congratulations to our 2008 CEAH Collaborative Grant Award Winners!

    • Barbara Walton, Art and Design
      Tong Wang, Food Science and Human Nutrition
      Modifying Soywax for Encaustic Painting and Comparing it to Traditional Encaustic Painting Waxes


    Spring 2008:
    a message from our director


    CEAH Funding Deadlines


    FACULTY:
    Fall 2008 deadlines to be announced



    Interested in getting involved in future programming? Check out what CEAH has planned for:

    2008-09:
    Sustaining the Earth



    2009-10:
    Mending Lives: Imagining Iowa in the Global Community



    Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life

    Iowa State has joined Imagining America, a consortium of colleges and universities, whose mission is to strengthen the public role and democratic purposes of the humanities, arts, and design.
    Check out what Imagining America has to offer.