History doctoral candidates Noaquia Callahan and Allison Wells earn SHAFR research grants

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations has awarded them the Samuel Flagg Bemis Dissertation Research Grant
Wednesday, January 20, 2016

The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations has awarded two University of Iowa Department of History doctoral candidates the Samuel Flagg Bemis Dissertation Research Grant.

Noaquia Callahan's dissertation is titled, “Divided Duty: African American Feminist Transnational Activism and the Lure of the Imperial Gaze, 1888-1922.” Callahan is currently a Doctoral Fellow in African American History at the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C. Her thesis advisors are Lisa Heineman and Leslie Schwalm.

Allison Wells's dissertation is titled, "Close Encounters: Romantic and Sexual Relationships Between Americans and Filipinos in the American Empire, 1898-1946." Her thesis advisor is Michaela Hoenicke Moore.

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.