In December, Jennifer Mahoney and Andy Buchenot, both faculty members in the Department of English at IUPUI, were awarded a $5000 Bridge to the Future grant. Funded through philanthropic donations from the IUPUI Chancellor’s Circle, the grant will support the design, creation, and pilot of an open educational resource (OER) for use in W131 – …

Dr. Andrew Whitehead was cited in several prominent national news outlets concerning his ongoing research on white Christian nationalism. Reactions to the recent mass shootings and the Republican primaries has generated a real interest in the intersection between Christian nationalism and ongoing cultural and political cleavages in American society.The AP: Christian nationalism on the rise …

Dr. Carrie Foote was recently interviewed for a story on efforts to end HIV Stigma in Indiana law. Check it out here Carrie E. Foote is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, IU School of Liberal Arts, IUPUI

Congratulations to Dr. Edward Curtis who was recently awarded a $250,000 grant by the Religion and Theology Program of the Henry Luce Foundation to advance knowledge about race, justice and religion in America! Read more about it here. Edward E. Curtis IV is Professor of Religious Studies and the William M. and Gail M. Plater …

Dr. Nancy Robertson was recently selected as a Fellow of the Institute of Engaged Learning’s new Project-Based Learning Lab! Learn more about the new Project-Based Learning Lab here. Nancy M. Robertson is an Associate Professor in the Department of History, IU School of Liberal Arts

Sociology Professor Robert White is the Director of the Irish Republican Movement Collection, an online resource for persons interested in one of the oldest social movements in the world. https://ulib.iupui.edu/digitalcollections/IrishRepublicanMovement  He is currently working with digital librarians in the University Library to place online photographs from the files of The Irish People, a weekly newspaper …

by Elizabeth Nelson and Emily Beckman Widely remembered as sites of abuse, isolation, and neglect, many state-run psychiatric hospitals and homes for the disabled were shuttered across the United States in the late 20th century. Indiana’s Central State Hospital (1848-1994) came to a particularly tragic end, after a series of preventable patient deaths in the …