Anthropology students named winners of Public Anthropology writing competition

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Twenty-four University of Iowa students have been named winners in an anthropology essay-writing competition. The students participated through Professor Junjie Chen’s “Anthropology and Contemporary World Problems” course, offered through the Department of Anthropology in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.

The competition, which involved over 4,000 students from 30 schools, was sponsored by the Center for a Public Anthropology, a website dedicated to fostering social accountability for scholars and students within the anthropology discipline.

To enter the competition, students wrote op-ed pieces on how Institutional Review Boards should enforce common rules and regulations of anthropological research. The Public Anthropology Award winners (named below) and their essays are published on the competition’s website.

  • Adrianne Butcher
  • Michael Stevens
  • Bethany Foster
  • Katherine Garbacz
  • Victoria Luse​
  • Alaina Hammer
  • Julia Cartwright
  • Jenna Lee
  • Ian Hultman
  • Brooke Herring
  • Gianna Harris​
  • Karlee Schmahl​
  • Kaitlyn Van Fossen
  • Colin Goebel
  • Megan Kapalka
  • Marissa Haubrich
  • Jennifer Dreyer
  • Emma Pradarelli
  • Lauren Dengler
  • John Garoufalis
  • Jordan Veatch
  • Sarah Gross
  • Bailey Nelson
  • Rose Strait

The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers about 70 majors across the humanities; fine, performing and literary arts; natural and mathematical sciences; social and behavioral sciences; and communication disciplines. About 15,000 undergraduate and nearly 2,000 graduate students study each year in the college’s 37 departments, led by faculty at the forefront of teaching and research in their disciplines. The college teaches all Iowa undergraduates through the college's general education program, CLAS CORE. About 80 percent of all Iowa undergraduates begin their academic journey in CLAS. The college confers about 60 percent of the university's bachelor's degrees each academic year.