Dr. Anthony's major areas of research interest are: a) housing and community development issues - in particular federal, state and local housing policies and the development of affordable housing; b) growth management, where he is concerned about the benefits and costs of growth management policies and their distribution across different income populations; and c) land, infrastructure and housing...

Nick Benson currently serves as Executive Director for the Provost’s Office of Outreach & Engagement. He shapes the university's community development initiatives by leading outreach and engagement programming and services around community and economic development, sustainability, cultural vitality, health and wellness, and knowledge sharing. He enjoys engaging departments across the university...

Chuck Connerly joined the University of Iowa School of Urban and Regional Planning in 2008 as professor and director, and founded the Iowa Initiative for Sustainable Communities in 2009. His research has been published in top journals, including the Journal of the American Planning Association, the Journal of Planning Education and Research, the Journal of Planning Literature, Housing Studies, the...

David Cwiertny is a Professor and Director of Graduate Studies within the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at the University of Iowa (UI). He holds a B.S. in Environmental Engineering Science with a minor in Chemistry from U.C. Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. David’s research integrates aspects of environmental engineering...

Leslie Finer currently serves as Director of Arts & Humanities for the Office of Outreach & Engagement. She works to enhance community vitality by utilizing the University’s arts and cultural resources. She enjoys working with faculty, staff, and students to partner with communities across Iowa on arts and humanities initiatives. She previously directed the University of Iowa’s Arts Share program...

Daria Fisher Page teaches and directs the Community Empowerment & Development practice of the legal clinic at Iowa Law. Her students represent individuals, nonprofits, and organizations working to strengthen their communities, create economic opportunity, and advance social justice in matters ranging from entity formation and strategic planning to coalition building and the design of advocacy...

Rick Fosse is a Professor of Practice for the Civil and Environmental Engineering Program. He teaches a variety of classes focusing on design, project management, leadership, resilient infrastructure and emergency response. Prior to joining the University, Rick practiced engineering for 33 years, including 11 years as Iowa City’s Public Works Director and 14 years as City Engineer. At a regional...

I teach courses in environmental literary studies, public humanities, and European literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with emphases in media studies, information theory, and environmental history. My most recent book, Ossianic Unconformities: Bardic Poetry in the Industrial Age (Virginia UP, 2015), explores a modern quest to locate vestiges of ancient poetry in the landscapes of an industrial world. My more recent publications continue to study the intersections of environmental and literary history in Scottish and French romanticism. I have also published several co-authored articles that apply methods from geographical information science, computational linguistics, and network modelling to the print archive of Scottish industrialization.

Ali Hval (she/her) (b. 1993, Sacramento, CA) is a visual artist currently living and working in Iowa City, Iowa. She earned her MFA from the University of Iowa in Painting and Drawing with honors, and BFA in Painting from the University of Alabama with honors. Her work is interdisciplinary, combining ceramic, fabric, installation, and painting. The forms and materials she uses reflect her interest in adornment and the relentless critique and politicization of the body. Ali has completed over 30 public murals and projects in various communities across the US. These murals have ranged from large-scale projects for nonprofits and municipal entities, to projects which have directly involved community members in the painting and designing process.

Nellie Kluz is a filmmaker who records and interprets various places and communities, focusing on social interactions, belief systems and material realities. Her films have screened at venues like the Full Frame Film Festival, Festival de Popoli, the Chicago Underground Film Festival, Uniondocs, Camden International Film Festival, the Independent Film Festival Boston, the Maryland Film Festival...

Travis Kraus is an Associate Professor in the University of Iowa School of Planning & Public Affairs and is the Director for the Iowa Initiative for Sustainable Communities, a community engagement program that helps create more sustainable futures while enhancing teaching and learning at the University of Iowa. Travis views Strategic Doing as a tool to enhance the capacity of rural and urban...