Campus Pre-Law Advisor and Clinical Associate Professor of Political Science Shana Stump was interviewed in The Indiana Lawyer about upcoming changes to the LSAT for pre-law students. Click here to read the full article.

Professor Kristina Sheeler (IUPUI School of Liberal Arts), and coauthor Karrin Vasby Anderson were recently interviewed about their increasingly relevant book: Woman President: Confronting Postfeminist Political Culture.(Texas A&M Press, 2013). The book remains a timely and “important exploration of the complexities of women, gender, and power within the U.S. political system, with particular attention to …

  IUPUI sociology professor Andrew Whitehead provided expert analysis for a Washington Post column examining a slew of bills in Texas pushing for the insertion of a particular expression of Christianity in the public sphere. The half-dozen bills look to place Christian chaplains in public schools, post the Ten Commandments in every public school, and …

Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failed with enormous speed – so quickly that they could be textbook cases of classic bank runs, in which too many depositors withdraw their funds from a bank at the same time. The failures at SVB and Signature were two of the three biggest in U.S. banking history, following …

The Museum of Broken Relationships Indianapolis is a new exhibit developed as a collaboration between the IUPUI Museum Studies Program, the Museum of Broken Relationships (based in Zagreb, Croatia), and partners around Indianapolis. WISH TV’s Scott Sander interviewed Dr. Laura Holzman, Associate Professor of Museum Studies in the IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI, …

Dr. Daniella Kostroun, Associate Professor of History in the IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI, has published a guest blog post on the Indiana Historical Society website entitled “Dancing the Blues with Hoagy Carmichael.” The blog post coincided with the publication of a full-length article by Dr. Kostroun of the same title in the …

IUPUI sociologist Andrew Whitehead published an analysis with Religion News Service on the connection between Christian nationalism and Americans’ attitudes toward abortion access. Whitehead and colleague Sam Perry cite data that show even though the numbers of Americans who embrace Christian nationalism are more likely to identify as “pro-life” and approve of the 2022 overturning …

Throughout his political career Donald Trump has utilized name-calling when referring to his opponents. Scholarly research, however, has yet to examine the effect that this type of incivility has on individuals’ evaluations of both the attacker (i.e., the person using name-calling) and the victim. Aaron Dusso, Associate Professor of Political Science in the IU School of Liberal …

IUPUI sociologist Andrew Whitehead published an analysis in Time magazine of why the recent midterm election losses of prominent politicians who embrace Christian nationalism aren’t likely to change the minds of Americans who embrace Christian nationalism. Whitehead and colleague Sam Perry cite data that show even though the numbers of Americans who embrace Christian nationalism …

IUPUI sociologist Andrew Whitehead published an analysis of the growth and decline of Christian nationalism in the United States in the Washington Post’s analysis section, the Monkey Cage. Whitehead and colleague Sam Perry show that while fewer Americans embrace strong commitment to Christian nationalism, the importance of Christian nationalism to those Americans only continues to …