Hyaeweol Choi

Invited Public Lectures

• Distinguished Lecturer for 2024-2025, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania, February 18, 2025. The title of the lecture: “From the Invisible to the Visible: Food and Life Politics in Global Korea”
• Presidential Address at the Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, March 14, 2025. The title of the address: "Food and Gendered Life Politics in Global Korea"
• Andrew L. Markus Memorial Lecture, University of Washington, May 19-20, 2025. The title of the lecture: “Recipes for the Life Politics of Domesticity in Global Korea”
• Public lecture, Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University, October 21, 2025. The title of the lecture: “Gongyang: Meditation on Korean Buddhist Temple Food” 

Publications

• “A Taste of Transpacific History: Gendering Korean Cookbooks,” in Eating More Asian America: A Food Studies Reader, edited by Rober Ji-Song Ku, Martin F. Manalansan IV, and Anita Mannur, pp. 319-336 (New York: New York University Press)

Leadership Roles:

• President, Association for Asian Studies, 2024-2025
• DEO (Chair), Department of Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies, UI, 2022-2025

Fwangmun Oscar Danladi

Book Review

• Danladi, F. O. (2025). Book Review: When the Medium Was the Mission: The Atlantic Telegraph and the Religious Origins of Network Culture. International Bulletin of Mission Research, 49(2), 175-176

Grants, Honors and Awards

• 2025 University of Iowa Three Minutes Thesis (3MT) Challenge Finalist [https://grad.uiowa.edu/grad-success/3MT/past-winners/2025-showcase]
• Doug Trank Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring Teaching Award, Rhetoric Department, University of Iowa, IA May 2025 [https://rhetoric.uiowa.edu/instructors/doug-trank-memorial-award#accordion-item-2096-0]
• Robert and Mary Ann Small Stenger Religious Studies Scholarship, Academic Award, University of Iowa, IA, May 2025
• Education 2.0 Conference USA Edition, “Excellence In Education Award,” Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, April 15, 2025. [https://news.marketersmedia.com/fwangmun-oscar-danladi-recognized-with-excellence-in-education-award-at-education-20-conference-usa-edition/89157636] 

Conference Presentation

• Danladi, F.O. (2025). “Fatherhood from Proximity: An Autoethnography of the Social and Psychological Costs of Migration-Induced Distanciation on Fathers,” World Christianity Conference, 6th International, Interdisciplinary Conference, Princeton Theological Seminary, NJ. March 10-14,

Hasan Degerli

Awards

• 2025 Spring, Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship, University of Iowa
• 2025 Spring, E. P. Adler Award, University of Iowa, Religious Studies
• 2025 Summer, Graduate College Summer Fellowship, University of Iowa
• 2025-2026 Fall & Spring, Hazel Lockhart Rhoads Scholarship, University of Iowa
• 2026 Spring, Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Fellowship, University of Iowa 2020-2026

Publication

• Digital Humanities Project/Digital Map: “Christian Soldier Martyrs in Late Antiquity” – https://ui-libraries.github.io/christian_soldier_martyrs/

Presentations

• April 4th, 2025, “Soldier Martyrs Revisited: A New Perspective from the Earliest Sources” University of Iowa, Religious Studies
• Oct 16th, 2025, “From Jewish Amulet to Christian Icon: The Transformation of the Holy Rider Figure”- The 2nd Turkish History of Religions Congress, Bursa Uludağ University, (Bursa, Turkey)
• Nov 24th, 2025 “Julian the Apostate in Christian Perspective” - Society of Biblical Literature, (Boston, MA, USA) 

Tucker Gregor

Publications

• 2025, Gregor, Tucker J. “Introduction to the Focus Issue on Moral Dilemmas.” Journal of Religious Ethics53, no. 1 (2025): 6-9.
• 2025, Gregor, Tucker J. “Book Review: Growing in Virtue: Aquinas on Habit by William C. Mattison III.” Modern Theology 41, no.1 (2025): 365-368. 

Leadership Roles

• Coordinator, Department of Religious Studies Faculty and Graduate Colloquium

Allison Isidore

Awards

• Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award (Spring 2025)
• Alice Lampe Heidel and John B. Heidel Memorial Award (Spring 2025)

Certificate Completion

• Graduate Certificate in African American Studies, University of Iowa, Spring 2025
• Graduate Certificate in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, University of Iowa, Spring 2025

Presentation

• “Women Religious and Intellectual Activism: Catholic Intellectuals and the Fight for Social Justice,” Conference on the History of Women Religious, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, University of Notre Dame. South Bend, Indiana, June 25, 2025.
• Sisters in Struggle: Catholic Nuns, Race, and Religious Identity During the Civil Rights Movement | University of Northern Iowa | April 8, 2025

Forthcoming Publication

• Book Chapter: “Historical Sites and Memory: How Different Research Environments Change Scholarship,” In University in Flames: Ecologies of Scholarship in the Study of Religion. Equinox Publishing. 2026

Other accomplishments

• Passed Comprehensive Exams (Fall 2025)
• Assisted the organizing of the Small Bites Lecture. This was a series of 3-5 minute lectures on the intersection of food and religion. This event was spurred by the reduction in SNAP benefits and was in conjuncture with the department food drive
• Organizer of Faith on the Plate book/cooking club. The aim of this club is to dive into the intersection of religion and cuisine, examining how these two elements shape not only specific religious practitioners eating habits, but as well as our eating habits. The first meeting will be in Spring 2026 and will gather bi-weekly to explore two chapter from Christina Ward’s insightful book, Holy Food: How Cults, Communes, and Religious Movements Influenced What We Eat. Each session will include a hands-on cooking experience, where students will prepare a recipe taken directly from that chapters. Participants will not only acquire new culinary skills but also gain a deeper appreciation for the historical and cultural significance of diverse religious culinary traditions. Join us on this delicious journey of discovery!