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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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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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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