History Prof Matt Noellert wins Luce/ACLS fellowship

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Matthew Noellert
Matthew Noellert

University of Iowa Professor Matthew Noellert has won a prestigious Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Henry Luce Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Program in China Studies.

He received the fellowship based on his proposal “Beyond Fanshen: New Perspectives on Communist Land Reform from Northeast China, 1946-1948.” He will use the fellowship this coming academic year to work on his book.

Noellert is an assistant professor in the Department of History, part of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. He studies the social and economic history of 20th century China, focusing in particular on communist revolution and rural collectivization.

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.