The Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics is pleased to recognize the accomplishments and activities of its students and staff: Shreya Bhardwaj, a senior in economics and women’s studies and an Elizabeth Hoffman and Brian R. Binger Legacy of Heroines scholar for the 2014-2015 academic year; Janet Horsager, the Beth Bierbaum Legacy of … Continue reading Of note: news about center students, faculty and staff
Two Wisconsin eighth-graders chose Carrie Chapman Catt for their middle school’s History Day project, and after months of local, state and regional competitions, advanced to the National History Day competition in Washington, D.C. Last January, Allison Cotton, Lexie Higgins and Allison’s mother Linda (Mendenhall) Cotton, a 1983 graduate of Iowa State University, embarked on a … Continue reading Wisconsin students’ research on Catt wins awards
Two undergraduate students and one graduate assistant have been hired this summer to assist with research projects at the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics as well as with two new partnerships between the center and Iowa organizations. Megan DeDoncker, a senior in political science and women’s studies, is analyzing data from the … Continue reading Catt Center interns help with research, outreach programs
Valerie Hennings, who has served as scholar-in-residence at the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics since the fall 2011 semester, will join Morningside College in August as an assistant professor of political science. Hennings, who earned a Ph.D. in political science in 2011 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will be affiliated with Morningside’s … Continue reading Hennings to join Morningside College faculty
Dianne Bystrom, director of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics, has been awarded a College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Institutional Service Award. The college will recognize Bystrom’s achievement at the LAS Fall Convocation on Thursday, Sept. 11, at 3:30 p.m. in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union. “I’m honored to … Continue reading Bystrom receives LAS Institutional Service Award
The Catt Center recently helped facilitate the purchase of a collection of personal correspondence between Carrie Chapman Catt, her nieces and several family friends. The letters, which date from the early to mid-1930s to the mid-1940s, were originally purchased at an estate sale by Joe and Tracy Conway of Clovis, Calif. The Conways were interested … Continue reading Letters from Catt find home at Iowa State library
To help keep pace with student interest in courses offered as part of the certificate in community leadership and public service, two new lecturers will join the faculty affiliated with the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics in August. Cameron Beatty, who graduates in August from Iowa State University with a Ph.D. in … Continue reading Two lecturers join center’s leadership faculty
The Catt Center is accepting applications for the 2014 Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics through a postmark deadline of Nov. 26. This annual competition is designed to encourage and reward scholars embarking on significant research in the area of women and politics. Since the first prize was awarded in 1995, … Continue reading 2014 Catt Prize deadline is Nov. 26