The Threat to the University of Iowa Labor Center Is a Threat to Labor and Working-Class History

On 17–18 April 2004, the Midwest Labor and Working-Class History Colloquium (MLWCH) met at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Formed in 1994, MLWCH is a consortium of graduate students and faculty connected to the Midwest either through research interest or institutional affiliation. MLWCH exists to foster scholarly exchange amongst the field's future and current practitioners, provide an informal setting for students to present and receive feedback on their research, and nurture the collegial relationships that are essential to the study of history. This year's colloquium brought together eighteen graduate students and featured three events: an open forum on the question “Is it Labor or Working-Class History?” two roundtable discussions on participants' research, and a faculty-led roundtable on professional development.

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E. P. THOMPSON IN AFRICAN HISTORY

The Journal of African History ◽

10.1017/s0021853716000712 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 58 (1) ◽

pp. 1-1

Keyword(s):

Working Class ◽

Social History ◽

Private Property ◽

The United States ◽

Economic Transformation ◽

African History ◽

University Of Michigan ◽

Private Property Rights ◽

Working Class History ◽

The University

E. P. Thompson's influence on the writing of African history, especially in its Kenyan and South African concentrations, has long seemed so obvious that it has attracted little scholarly comment. In this JAH Forum we host four historians who have been associated with very different elements of this anglophone tradition of historical writing. Peter Delius challenges the widely held view that the Making of the English Working Class (1963) was key to the emergence of rural social history at the University of the Witwatersrand, and that he was a champion of Thompsonian methods and arguments; John Higginson draws on the intellectual debates of working class history in the United States to restate its ongoing significance for southern African history; Luise White returns to Whigs and Hunters (1975) to ask why it is that Africanists have not taken up the intriguing relationships between the hunting and preservation of wild animals and the evolution of private property rights in land; and Derek Peterson draws on Thompson's last book, Witness Against the Beast (1993), to draw attention to the ways in which historians have ignored the political theologies of African nonconformism. These articles were selected from a workshop hosted by the University of Michigan in November 2015, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which brought many of the assumptions and absences of African social history into productive focus; they map out a broad historiographical field and we anticipate that they will be followed by other works picking up on the problems and arguments of cultural and economic transformation that obsessed Thompson and many others.

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Review of "Labouring Feminisms and Feminist Working-Class History in North America and Beyond," 29 September-2 October 2005, Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto

Left History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Historical Inquiry and Debate ◽

10.25071/1913-9632.5702 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Rhonda L. Hinther

Keyword(s):

North America ◽

Working Class ◽

International Studies ◽

University Of Toronto ◽

Working Class History ◽

The University

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The consolidation of microscopy technology into a university research support facility: Reflections on the 1980's and projections for the 1990's at the university of iowa

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100148216 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 51 ◽

pp. 476-477

Author(s):

Kenneth C. Moore

Keyword(s):

Laser Scanning ◽

Freeze Fracture ◽

Freeze Substitution ◽

Research Support ◽

University Of Iowa ◽

Staff Members ◽

The Past ◽

Research Grade ◽

The University ◽

Support Facility

The University of Iowa Central Electron Microscopy Research Facility(CEMRF) was established in 1981 to support all faculty, staff and students needing this technology. Initially the CEMRF was operated with one TEM, one SEM, three staff members and supported about 30 projects a year. During the past twelve years, the facility has replaced all instrumentation pre-dating 1981, and now includes 2 TEM's, 2 SEM's, 2 EDS systems, cryo-transfer specimen holders for both TEM and SEM, 2 parafin microtomes, 4 ultamicrotomes including cryoultramicrotomy, a Laser Scanning Confocal microscope, a research grade light microscope, an Ion Mill, film and print processing equipment, a rapid cryo-freezer, freeze substitution apparatus, a freeze-fracture/etching system, vacuum evaporators, sputter coaters, a plasma asher, and is currently evaluating scanning probe microscopes for acquisition. The facility presently consists of 10 staff members and supports over 150 projects annually from 44 departments in 5 Colleges and 10 industrial laboratories. One of the unique strengths of the CEMRF is that both Biomedical and Physical scientists use the facility.

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Faculty evaluation at the University of Iowa

Journal of Dental Education ◽

10.1002/j.0022-0337.1977.41.6.tb01101.x ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 41 (6) ◽

pp. 332-334

Author(s):

NS Logan ◽

R Muston

Keyword(s):

Faculty Evaluation ◽

University Of Iowa ◽

The University

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Five Decades of Research Experience in Speech Anatomy and Physiology

Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups ◽

10.1044/persp1.sig5.4 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 1 (5) ◽

pp. 4-12

Author(s):

David P. Kuehn

Keyword(s):

Ohio State University ◽

State University ◽

Research Experience ◽

University Of Iowa ◽

University Of Illinois ◽

Anatomy And Physiology ◽

The Ohio State University ◽

Speech Science ◽

The University ◽

East Carolina University

This report highlights some of the major developments in the area of speech anatomy and physiology drawing from the author's own research experience during his years at the University of Iowa and the University of Illinois. He has benefited greatly from mentors including Professors James Curtis, Kenneth Moll, and Hughlett Morris at the University of Iowa and Professor Paul Lauterbur at the University of Illinois. Many colleagues have contributed to the author's work, especially Professors Jerald Moon at the University of Iowa, Bradley Sutton at the University of Illinois, Jamie Perry at East Carolina University, and Youkyung Bae at the Ohio State University. The strength of these researchers and their students bodes well for future advances in knowledge in this important area of speech science.

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Rheometers, Bioreactors, and Vocalization Forces: Using Basic Science Investigations to Help the Voices of Teachers

Perspectives on Voice and Voice Disorders ◽

10.1044/vvd18.3.119 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 18 (3) ◽

pp. 119-125

Author(s):

Sarah Klemuk

Keyword(s):

Basic Science ◽

Tissue Growth ◽

University Of Iowa ◽

Support Cell ◽

Rest Periods ◽

Collaborative Studies ◽

Professional Voice Users ◽

The University ◽

Science Investigations ◽

Professional Voice

Abstract Collaborative studies at the University of Iowa and the National Center for Voice and Speech aim to help the voices of teachers. Investigators study how cells and tissues respond to vibration doses simulating typical vocalization patterns of teachers. A commercially manufactured instrument is uniquely modified to support cell and tissue growth, to subject tissues to vocalization-like forces, and to measure viscoelastic properties of tissues. Through this basic science approach, steps toward safety limits for vocalization and habilitating rest periods for professional voice users will be achieved.

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