Department of Anthropology lecturer Heidi Lung appointed as Iowa Museum Association Board President and joined Leadership Team for the Museum Studies Network

Monday, April 1, 2019

Heidi LungHeidi Lung, lecturer in the University of Iowa Department of Anthropology and director of the Museum Studies Program, has been appointed as Iowa Museum Association Board President this past October, and has also joined the Leadership Team for the Museum Studies Network as a part of the American Alliance of Museums as of 2019.

Lung joined the University of Iowa faculty in 2015, and has served on the Iowa Museum Association board since 2016. Her main goal for the IMA is to facilitate a wide range of professional development programs that assist Iowa’s museums, especially small community museums, in building organizational capacity. The IMA also helps Lung provide opportunities for students to increase their professional skills and connect students with potential employers.

The Museum Studies Network is one of 20 professional networks within the Alliance of American Museums. MSN strives to bridge the field and academic museum studies programs. Through her service on the MSN leadership team, she hopes to contribute more broadly to museum studies pedagogy. Her duties will include collaborating with Museum Studies faculty to conduct research and develop teaching resources. Lung aims to diversify the museum work force and create more inclusive environments in both the field and museum studies programs.

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.