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Posted on October 10th, 2022 by Carrie E. Foote

On Oct 4, The Indiana General Assembly interim legislative study committee declared unanimous support for modernizing Indiana’s HIV criminal Laws. Dr. Carrie Foote, a national expert on HIV stigma and criminal law reform, from the IUPUI  Sociology Department and chair of the HIV Modernization Movement-Indiana was among key experts testifying in favor of reform. The …

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Posted on September 7th, 2022 by Carrie E. Foote

Dr Carrie Foote, IUPUI Sociology, was among a group of lawmakers and other stakeholders who discussed possible changes to Indiana laws concerning HIV-specific criminal penalties and sentence enhancements during an Indiana General Assembly Legislative Study session on August 30. Doctors, Public Health and Public Defender leaders argued that reforming HIV criminal laws will destigmatize the …

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Posted on July 14th, 2022 by Carrie E. Foote

Dr Carrie Foote in Sociology was interviewed for this article about the first ever Indiana General Assembly summer study session on the state’s criminal laws concerning HIV.  “Current scientific knowledge has resulted in existing laws being outdated, Human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, was first officially reported in the United States in the early 1980s. The …

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Posted on May 9th, 2022 by Aaron Dusso

  Dr. Marilee Brooks-Gillies, Assistant Professor of English and University Writing Center Director, and three former students, Varshini Balaji (BA Anthropology ’20), KC Chan-Brose (MA English ’19), and Kelin Hull (Visiting Lecturer, English MA ’19), published the peer-reviewed article, “Listening Across: A Cultural Rhetorics Approach to Understanding Power Dynamics within a University Writing Center,” in …

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Posted on January 28th, 2022 by Aaron Dusso

Congratulations to Dr. Zimmerman who was recently awarded the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Lucy Mair Medal and the Marsh Prize for Applied Anthropology! You can read more about it here Larry Zimmerman is Professor Emeritus of Museum Studies and Public Scholar Emeritus of Native American Representation, IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI

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Posted on January 14th, 2022 by Aaron Dusso

Jason Kelly is the TRIP (Translating Research into Practice) scholar of the month. Read more about Dr. Kelly’s work here On Friday, January 28, 2022 from 12 noon to 1:00 p.m. Professor Kelly will give a virtual presentation about his work on “Transdisciplinarity, Public Scholarship, and the Anthropocene.” In this presentation, Professor Jason Kelly will …

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