After a two year delay, the unrecognized Republic of Somaliland held presidential and political party elections on November 13, 2024. The elections led to the defeat of the incumbent president and the emergence of a new political party. IU Indianapolis Professor of Political Science Dr. Scott Pegg who served as an international election observer for …

Professor of Sociology Andrew Whitehead‘s lasted book, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church, won the 2024 Midwest Book Award for Non-Fiction, Religion & Philosophy. This is the second book award American Idolatry has won. The Midwest Book Awards is one of the longest running literary recognition programs in the …

Indiana University-Indianapolis English Lecturer Katherine (Kate) Brinkmeyer received the “Best of the Best” in Adult ELL Education Award from the Indiana Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (INTESOL). This award is reserved for exceptional INTESOL teachers. As one of her nominator’s for the awarded noted:  “As a teacher, Kate is exceptional at supporting …

Dr. Rosa Tezanos-Pinto and Dr. Judith Carlstrand, both from the Program in Spanish at IU Indianapolis, are creating programs designed to raise student awareness and ability to work with people with multicultural perspectives. They have developed strategies that link research in pragmatics with pedagogy for the explicit instruction of real-world intercultural communication skills. Three separate …

Indiana University-Indianapolis Sociology Professor Carrie Foote, is featured in the #CelebrateUU Art Campaign which opened at the Indianapolis Public Library on World AIDS Day, Dec 1.  The exhibit highlights 25 stories of Hoosiers living with HIV in the modern era of U=U (Undetectable = Untransmittable). With U=U, we know a person living with HIV who …

Indiana has six laws that criminalize people living with HIV (PLWH), spanning both the public health and criminal codes. A new report by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law evaluates whether these laws reflect current understandings of HIV science and whether they criminalize conduct that poses negligible or no negligible or no risk …

Professor Edward Curtis has added another documentary to his list of film credits, which include The Great Muslim American Road Trip and the Emmy award-winning Arab Indianapolis. Curtis, director of the Arabic and Islamic studies minor and the William M. and Gail M. Plater Chair of the Liberal Arts at IU Indianapolis, recently served as …

Dr. Carrie Foote was recognized at the Annual Indiana University Harvey Milk Dinner, which honors the memory of Harvey Milk and celebrates the LGBTQ+ community at IU Indianapolis and beyond. She was awarded the Sylvia Rivera Award for her activism for the last decade building the HIV Modernization Movement-Indiana and working to end HIV stigma, …

Drs. Kenzie Mintus and Scott Landes (Syracuse University) won an Emerald Literati Award for Outstanding Author Contribution for their chapter “Integrating the Social and Political Dimensions of Disability Into Life Course Theory.” According to the the Emerald Literati website, the Outstanding Contributions award recognizes “authors who have contributed something new and significant to their area …

Indiana University Indianapolis English Professor Stephen Fox, with the assistance of Senior Lecturer Mary Ann Cohen, manages the Hoosier Writing Project! For the 14th year, this project which is a site of the National Writing Project, partnered with other community members to host the Central and Southern Indiana Region of the Scholastic Art and Writing …