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Posted on October 21st, 2024 in Announcements, Community Engagement, Events, Faculty, Research by Carrie E. Foote

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 …

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Posted on October 20th, 2024 in Award, Community Engagement, Faculty by Carrie E. Foote

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, …

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Posted on October 15th, 2024 in Announcements, Article, Award, Faculty, Publication, Research by Carrie E. Foote

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 …

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English Profs
Posted on October 12th, 2024 in Announcements, Award, Book, Community Engagement, Creative Activity, Events, Faculty, Students by Carrie E. Foote

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 …

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Associate Professor Xin Zhang
Posted on October 10th, 2024 in Award, Book, Faculty, Research by Carrie E. Foote

IU Indianapolis Professor of History Xin Zhang was awarded the CHUS Academic Excellence Book Award from the Chinese Historians in the U.S. (Jan. 2024) for his book titled The Global in the Local: A Century of War, Commerce, and Technology (Cambridge: Harvard University Press 2023). The traditional Chinese version of this book has now been …

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Posted on September 23rd, 2024 in Announcements, Community Engagement, Events, Faculty by Carrie E. Foote

Professor Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, team member of the Indy Toxic Heritage: Pollution, Place, and Power exhibit, invites you to view the exhibit at the Riverside Park Family Center through September 28th. There will also be a public conversation on Thursday, September 26th, 5-7pm with photographer Wildstyle Paschall and journalist Enrique Saenz. They will be sharing their …

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Professors
Posted on September 18th, 2024 in Award, Book, Faculty, Research by Carrie E. Foote

Four books by three IU School of Liberal Arts in Indianapolis faculty members were named to the 2024 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards shortlists. Edward E. Curtis, William M. and Gail M. Plater Chair of the Liberal Arts and Professor of World Languages & Cultures, had two books on the nonfiction shortlist: Muslims …

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English Instructors
Posted on August 21st, 2024 in Announcements, Book, Faculty, Grant, Students by Carrie E. Foote

In 2022, Writing Program Director Andy Buchenot and Associate Director Jennifer Price Mahoney began exploring the possibilities of developing open educational resources (OER) for W131, IU Indianapolis’s required first-year writing course. OER are teaching materials that use an open license, permitting “no-cost access, re-use, re-purpose, adaptation and redistribution by others” (UNESCO). They made this project …

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Posted on August 4th, 2024 in Faculty, Publication, Research by Carrie E. Foote

Indiana has six laws that criminalize people living with HIV (PLWH), including two that make it a felony to donate blood, plasma, and semen for artificial insemination if a person knows they have HIV.  A new report by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law finds that at least 18 people were prosecuted under Indiana’s …

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Dr. Hayes
Posted on August 2nd, 2024 in Book, Faculty, Publication, Research by Carrie E. Foote

Professor Kelly Hayes recent publication, Spirits of the Space Age, details the historical emergence of The Valley of the Dawn, a highly eclectic new religious movement known for its spectacular material culture and all-encompassing aesthetics. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, Kelly Hayes offers a narrative portrait of a new religious movement as seen in and …

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