Dr. Andrew Whtehead, co-directs the Association of Religion Data Archives (the ARDA) at the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture; they were awarded a $1.6 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation to use the ARDA to Strengthen the Religion Research Community, 2023-2026.  Click here to read more about this important project …

Assistant Professor of English Sarah Layden‘s new book of short stories, Imagine Your Life Like This, was reviewed by Kathryn Ludwig for the Indiana Authors Awards book reviews, which makes the reviews available to newspapers across the state. Layden was interviewed about the book by Indiana Humanities/Indiana Authors Awards. Click here to Watch the interview:  …

Congratulations Dr. Aniruddha (Rudy) Banerjee, Geography at IU-Indianapolis, for being awarded a US Patent for Methods And Systems Providing Aerial Transport Network Infrastructures For Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Click here to learn more! Abstract: SKYDOS creates a comprehensive retail delivery ecosystem with security protocols imitating a century old, reality-tested and fine-tuned robust model, the current street …

Congratulations to Dr. Carrie Foote for receviing the HIV Advocacy Award from the Indianapolis Urban League for her community based HIV criminal law reform advocacy and scholarship as  Chair and co-founder of the HIV Modernization Movement-Indiana (HMM) and a national expert on HIV criminal law reform! She is a long-term HIV-thriver who was once homeless, …

Dr. Xin Zhang has won the Academic Excellence Book Award from the Chinese Historians in the U.S. Organization for his recent Monograph: The Global in the Local: A Century of War, Commerce, and Technology in China. The review committee made the following comments: “…your monograph is an ambitious work which skillfully remakes a new history …

A recently published chapter by Professor Kenzie Mintus, coauthored with Scott D. Landes at Syracuse University, has won the Best Chapter Award in Volume 14 of Research in Social Science and Disability (Emerald Publishing). The chapter is entitled “Integrating the Social and Political Dimensions of Disability into Life Course Theory.” Recipients of the Editor’s choice …

IU-I Journalism Professor Jonas Bjork recent insightful article published in Swedish-American Historical Quarterly discussing how SE, a Swedish magazine with a primarily working-class audience, covered race relation in the U.S. during the civil-rights era. Coming from an ethnically homogeneous country, the magazine’s reporters struggled at times with conveying the issues facing African-Americans to their readers, …

Estela Ene, English Professor, IU-I, is one of several editors on this important new book . EFL Writing Teacher Education and Professional Development: Voices from Under-represented Contexts. Multilingual Matters. The collection explores how EFL writing teacher education is shaped, given teachers’ unique local contexts and circumstances. The chapters prioritize local voices and materials in order …

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 Jonas Bjork publishes informative research findings discussing how publishers of two prominent New York newspapers viewed the role of foreign correspondence in the late 1840s, a time when innovations such as the telegraph and the steamship were revolutionizing the way news was gathered and transmitted.  Published in the prestigous American Journalism, click here to …