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  • Cravens named CEAH Distinguished Scholar

    Hamilton Cravens, professor of history, has been named the 2007 Distinguished Arts and Humanities Scholar by the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities.

    A leading scholar in the history of social science, Cravens joined the Iowa State faculty in 1968.

    The Distinguished Arts and Humanities Scholar spends a semester without teaching responsibilities to work on his or her scholarly research.

    During his stint as Iowa State's Distinguished Arts and Humanities Scholar, Cravens will work on a new book, Changing Notions of Race in America Since Reconstruction. The book will trace the history of American attitudes regarding race, as they were expressed in politics and law, science, and pop culture, over three chronological eras since 1870.

    "Thoughts and deeds arise from the culture in which they are found, and belong to specific eras," Cravens says. "Thus the idea of race has changed over time."

    During the spring of 2007, Cravens will work on his book as the Fulbright-Dow Research Chair at the Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, the Netherlands.

    This is the fourth time that Cravens has received a Fulbright Award. He has previously served as the George Bancroft Professor of American History at Goettingen University in Germany and as the J.W. Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies at Bonn, Cologne and Heidelberg Universities, also in Germany.

    He also received a Fulbright Senior Specialist Award to Bonn University in the spring of 2006.

 Hamilton Cravens
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