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Welcome Troy Nichols, IA Associate Director of Membership

By Imagining America

September 26, 2023

Imagining America is proud to welcome Troy Nichols as our new Associate Director of Membership! Troy has spent over twenty five years working…

UNI Spotlights Something Old, Something New

By Imagining America

May 13, 2023

The North American Review (NAR), the nation’s oldest literary magazine is currently housed at the University of Northern Iowa (UNI) and is celebrating 50 years at our university.

[Au]xiology, a pedagogical experiment investigating value & gold

By Imagining America

September 26, 2022

By Ant(onia) Lore(nzo)

I think a lot about the so-called “potential” of so-called “gen z.” Just barely a member of this supposably fast-paced generation myself…

Thinking Freely: Will “The Poet” Langford on Public Scholarship

By Imagining America

September 30, 2021

By Will Langford

In this video, Langford envisions a liberating future in the field of public scholarship.

Hundreds Down In Support

By Imagining America

September 30, 2021

By Stephany Bravo

On March of 2013, Cindy Chang published a Los Angeles Times article titled “Hundreds march down in support of immigration reform.” The article partially recounted my family’s attendance in a march led by undocumented peoples…

Community Resilience: Cultivating Solutions Together

By Imagining America

September 29, 2021

By Peter Nguyen

Water continuously flows, never stopping while taking the shape of where it journeys. In understanding resilience, there is this similar notion of adapting, adjusting, overcoming…

Sustaining Engagement and Collaborative Partnerships in Shifting Times

By Imagining America

September 29, 2021

By Marisol Fila

I was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. When I was in elementary school, our fourth-grade teacher asked us to narrate our family histories…

I Am Who I Say I Am: Reclaiming Native American Identity through Visual Sovereignty

By Imagining America

September 28, 2021

By Haley Rains

The Maori filmmaker Merata Mita once said, “I’ve always felt strongly that our land gets taken, the fisheries and forests get taken, and in the same category is our stories…