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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 …