A book edited by University of Iowa Professors Lena M. Hill and Michael D. Hill received a 2017 Shambaugh Certificate of Merit, which recognizes excellence in a new book about Iowa history.
The book, Invisible Hawkeyes: African Americans at the University during the Long Civil Rights Era, is an essay collection documenting the stories of African American students at the UI from 1930 to 1960. The book “[examines] the quieter collisions between Iowa’s polite Midwestern progressivism and African American students’ determined ambition,” according to the University of Iowa Press description.
Lena and Michael Hill are associate professors in the Department of English and the African American Studies Program, both part of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.