IU School of Liberal Arts

In the News - August 2011

September 12 | News Categories: Anthropology | Centers | Communication Studies | Economics | English | Geography | History | Institute for American Thought | Philanthropic Studies | Political Science | Religious Studies

Experts from Liberal Arts departments and centers are regularly cited in the local, national, and international media. A selection from online sources provides a sampling of the types of issues and kinds of research Liberal Arts faculty are called upon to talk about in the public sphere. Also included is general Liberal Arts news covered by the media. 

Reflections on summer reading
The Immanent Frame August 31, 2011
In this compilation of summer reading Edward E. Curtis, IV, Millennium Chair of the Liberal Arts and Professor of Religious Studies says, "Some of the books that I read this summer were for …

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Cavanaugh Hall Celebrates 40 Years of Impact - September 23rd

August 29 | News Categories: African American and African Diaspora Studies | Anthropology | Centers | Communication Studies | Event Announcements | Economics | English | General News | Geography | History | Institute for American Thought | Medical Humanities | Museum Studies | Philosophy | Political Science | Religious Studies | Sociology | Women's Studies | World Languages and Cultures

Cavanaugh Hall will celebrate its 40^th anniversary with an open house and reunion on Friday, September 23, 2011, 4:30-6:30 pm. The event will feature a special six-story exhibit, "Cavanaugh Hall: 40 Years of Impact," exploring the building’s history, a reception, and comments from Dean William Blomquist at 6:00 pm.

Originally conceived to be 9-stories tall with windows all around, Cavanaugh, the Lecture Center (now Lecture Hall) and the Library (now Taylor Hall) were the first undergraduate buildings on what became the IUPUI campus. Named in honor of Robert E. …

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Liberal Arts Faculty/Staff Break Campus Campaign Record!

June 16 | News Categories: Anthropology | Centers | Communication Studies | Economics | English | Faculty and Staff | History | Institute for American Thought | Medical Humanities | Museum Studies | Philosophy | Political Science | Religious Studies | Sociology | Women's Studies | World Languages and Cultures

133 Liberal Arts faculty and staff members contributed to the 2011 Liberal Arts IMPACT IUPUI Faculty and Staff Campaign raising $55,702.19 for scholarships, research, departmental and school initiatives, and events! Across campus 856 faculty and staff donors have given $340,898 during the campaign that ran from February 28^th to May 31^st. Thanks to the generosity and commitment of the faculty and staff it was a record-setting year of support for the School of Liberal Arts. Liberal Arts faculty and staff giving also broke a campus record, collectively giving more than any unit in the campaign’s recorded history.

A record number of faculty …

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Liberal Arts Welcomes New Faculty and Staff for 2010-2011

October 07 | News Categories: Anthropology | Centers | Communication Studies | Economics | English | Faculty and Staff | Institute for American Thought | Philanthropic Studies | Philosophy | Political Science | Sociology | World Languages and Cultures

This fall, Liberal Arts welcomed new full and part-time faculty across its departments and programs. From language acquisition and instruction to Economics and American Studies, the interests of these faculty span the humanities and social sciences. Several staff members also joined the Liberal Arts team. Please click on the individual’s name to learn more.

Full-Time Teaching Faculty/Full-Time Teaching Faculty in New Appointments

• Yaa Akosa Antwi, Assistant Professor of Economics
• André Buchenot, Assistant Professor of English
• Amy Bomke, Visiting Lecturer in Spanish
• Devin Bryson, Visiting Lecturer in French
• Chad Carmichael, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
• Mary Ann Cohen, Visiting Lecturer in English
• Erin Engels, Lecturer in …
  
  

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Ray Bradbury Volume Named MLA Approved Edition

August 13 | News Categories: Centers | English | Institute for American Thought | Research

The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury, Vol. 1, a critical edition edited at The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies, was recently awarded the seal of The Modern Language Association’s (MLA) Committee on Scholarly Editions.  This establishes and recognizes that the level of scholarship in the volume meets the highest professional standards. The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury, Vol. 1 will be published by Kent State University Press in the fall of 2010.

The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies was established in the spring of 2007 by the IU School of Liberal Arts …

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Shipps Gives “Last Lecture” - 4/30

April 27 | News Categories: Campus News | Event Announcements | History | Institute for American Thought | Lectures and Seminars | Religious Studies

Jan Shipps, professor emeritus of history and religious studies in the School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI, will present the second annual Last Lecture at 1 p.m., Friday April 30, 2010, in the Lilly Auditorium of University Library. Shipps, also research associate at The Polis Center, is generally regarded as the foremost non-Mormon scholar of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

The Last Lecture Series is presented by the Senior Academy and offers the university community the opportunity to hear reflections on life’s lessons and meaning from a …

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Former College President to Head Institute for American Thought

June 22 | News Categories: Centers | Faculty and Staff | Institute for American Thought | Philosophy

Dr. David Pfeifer will become Director of the Institute for American Thought (IAT) on July 1, 2009. The IAT is a unique research facility that unites the teaching faculty, editing specialists, and research holdings of the Peirce Edition Project, the Santayana Edition, the Frederick Douglass Papers Project, and the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies with related academic programs in American Studies, Professional Editing, and American philosophy.

Since 2005, Professor Pfeifer has been a faculty member in Philosophy at IUPUI. Previously, Pfeifer was on the faculty and an administrator at Principia College in Elsah, Illinois. His thirty-one year …

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First of The New Ray Bradbury Review Available Now

November 12 | News Categories: Books by Faculty | Centers | English | Institute for American Thought | Research

An annual dedicated to the life and writings of one of America’s most prolific and popular authors *

Like its pioneering predecessor, the one-volume review published in 1952 by William F. Nolan, The New Ray Bradbury Review contains articles and reviews about Bradbury but has a much broader scope, including a thematic focus for each issue. Since Nolan composed his slim volume at the beginning of Bradbury’s career, Bradbury has birthed hundreds of stories and half a dozen novels, making him one of this country’s most anthologized authors. While his effect on the genres …

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Institute for American Thought Announces Lecture Series

February 07 | News Categories: Centers | Event Announcements | Institute for American Thought | Philosophy

The Liberal Arts’ Institute for American Thought (IAT) is proud to announce a spring lecture series featuring scholars from around the country and across the globe and considering philosophical topics ranging from pluralism to naturalism and semeiotics. Two of the lectures will also explore the thought of the nineteenth century psychologist and philosopher William James.

The IAT is a unique research facility bringing to IUPUI and Central Indiana an internationally acclaimed concentration of resources and scholarship that focuses on fundamental strongholds of American thought and culture. It unites the teaching faculty, editing specialists and research holdings of the Peirce Edition …

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