Professor Chris Lamb with the IU-Indianapolis Department of Journalism and Public Relations, teaches a course called Fake News. The course name was inspired by President Donald Trump, who falsely claimed to have invented the term. Trump’s lies and misstatements are well chronicled. As he explains, “I wanted to chronicle his failure as a president and …

Prof. Estela Ene, Chair of the English Department, represents the school and the fields of TESOL/Applied Linguistics and Second Language Writing on national task force on AI andwriting. Click here to learn more on the critically important work being done by the task force.

To an audience representing 30 states and 5 countries, Dr. Kelsey Binion, recent graduate from the Health Communication PhD Program, and Dr. Maria Brann, professor of Communication Studies, presented a plenary session titled, “Exploring the Use of Theatre to Inform and Shape Behaviors About Infertility” at the annual Institute of Reproductive Grief Care symposium. They …

Congratulations to Elizabeth Nelson, Indiana University-Indianapolis for winnning the Annual Book Award from the National Council on Public History, which recognizes outstanding scholarship that addresses the theory and/or practice of public history or that includes the products of public history work. Click here to purchaes the book, Co Edited with Michelle Jones, New York University, …

Congratulations to three Faculty in the School of Liberal Arts at Indiana University-Indianapolis for these outstanding National Award from National Council on Public History.  The Robert Kelley Memorial Award distinguished achievements by individuals, institutions, or nonprofit or corporate entities for making history relevant to the individual lives of ordinary people outside of academia. Awarded to: …

Dr. Amy Shansami, Sociology IU-I, has a chapter in the newly published anthology, Home: Multilingual Funds of Knowledge Parent Stories. The Anthology project is spearheaded by IU Columbus Education Associate Professor Laura Liu to foster community sharing of multicultural, multilingual funds of knowledge, resulting in an anthology of 15 parent-written stories. The publication features children’s …

Associate Professor of Sociology Andrew Whitehead appears as a featured voice in a new documentary on Christian nationalism titled GOD & COUNTRY. The film opens in theaters nationwide–including Indianapolis–on Friday, February 16. GOD & COUNTRY takes a closer look at the dangerous implications and explores how a base of Christians has radically stoked a movement …

Drs. Jennifer Bute and Maria Brann, along with a team of researchers from across the country, recently published a novel screening tool, Reproductive Grief Screen, to identify patients who may be experiencing ongoing, complicated grief following a pregnancy loss.  Click here for the press release highlighting the critical importance of this new tool and read …

Dr. Kelly Hayes, Dept. of Religious Studies newly published work, Spirits of the Space Age: The Imagined World of Brazil’s Valley of the Dawn, details the historical emergence of The Valley of the Dawn, a highly eclectic new religious movement known for its spectacular material culture and all-encompassing aesthetics. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, Kelly …

Dr. Rachel Wheeler, Chair of the Department of Religous Studies at IU-I published and excellent and timely opinion piece in Inside Higher Ed, titled: A Cure for Humanities Deficiency Syndrome. She eloquently lays out a strong argument against the logic that has led to many universities across the country cutting Humanities programs. To help save …