{"id":1583,"date":"2018-06-04T13:19:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T18:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/?p=1583"},"modified":"2023-08-07T11:50:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T16:50:02","slug":"our-2018-travel-grant-recipient-ezra-temko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/2018\/06\/04\/our-2018-travel-grant-recipient-ezra-temko\/","title":{"rendered":"Our 2018 Travel Grant Recipient: Ezra Temko"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ezra Temko, hard at work<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Our 2018 Linda and Richard Kerber Fund<\/a> travel grant recipient is Ezra Temko, a Sociology PhD candidate at the University of New Hampshire (UNH). The Linda and Richard Kerber Fund was established to help researchers travel to the Iowa Women\u2019s Archives. Temko has come to Iowa City from the state of Delaware, where his research investigates how cultural power and ideology are navigated around issues of racial and gender representation.
Temko became interested in Iowa after learning that in 2009, it became the only state in the U.S. to require gender balance for state and local boards and commissions. After interviewing proponents of the 2009 law, he discovered its roots went back to 1986, when a law requiring gender balance on only state boards and commissions was first passed.
Temko hoped that the papers available at the Iowa Women\u2019s Archives would provide context for the 1986 law and the efforts to extend it. For the past week he has accessed a wealth of useful materials in the Iowa Women\u2019s Political Caucus records<\/a>, the Minnette Doderer<\/a> papers, the Johnie Hammond<\/a> papers, and Governor Ray\u2019s Commission on the Status of Women<\/a> records to name just a few collections.
After four days in IWA, Temko says the highlights of his research include reading constituent letters to Iowa politicians and learning more about ERA campaigns in the state. Most of all, he\u2019s enjoyed learning about about the feminist victories of the 1970s and 1980s that we take for granted today such as the right of a married woman to have her name in the phone book without paying for it, or women\u2019s ability to change their names after divorcing. Iowa, he says, is unique, but through his research he\u2019s seeing connections to the feminism of the 1970s and 1980s everywhere. We can\u2019t wait to see the results of his work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our 2018 Linda and Richard Kerber Fund travel grant recipient is Ezra Temko, a Sociology PhD candidate at the University of New Hampshire (UNH). The Linda and Richard Kerber Fund was established to help researchers travel to the Iowa Women\u2019s Archives. Temko has come to Iowa City from the state of Delaware, where his researchContinue reading “Our 2018 Travel Grant Recipient: Ezra Temko”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":1590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,8,15,1],"tags":[255,259,112,256,258,111,257,51,87],"syndication":[20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1583"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2284,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions\/2284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1583"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=1583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}