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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 …

Congratulations to Professor Richard Steinberg for receiving a life time achievement award, granted annually by ARNOVA (Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action). The Distinguished Achievement and Leadership Award is given for significant and sustained contributions to the field through leadership as a researcher or practitioner. Nominees must have demonstrated outstanding achievement(s) as …

Build Community Give Care (BCGC) is a new non-profit organization created to address health disparities in West and sub-Saharan Africa. The right of all people living with serious illness to be free of avoidable pain and to die with dignity is widely recognized, and palliative care has been declared a universal human right. Relying on …