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Congratulations to Dr. Holly Cusack-McVeigh for winning the Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award! This award honors faculty who have shown outstanding leadership in integrating community and public service into their curricula. Holly Cusack-McVeigh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Museum Studies Program, IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI

Congratulations to Dr. Kryder-Reid for being named a 2021-2022 Fulbright U.S. Scholar! Read more about it here Elizabeth B. Kryder-Reid is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Director of Cultural Heritage Research Center and the Director of Graduate Programs for Museum Studies, IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI

Congratulations to Chancellor’s Professor Dr. Ulla Connor of the School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI on being named honorary doctor by Abo Akademi University in Finland! The honor will be conferred on May 20, 2022. Ulla M. Connor is Chancellor’s Professor of English and Barbara E. and Karl R. Zimmer Chair in Intercultural Communication and …

Sociologist Andrew Whitehead, co-director of the Association of Religion Data Archives at the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture at IUPUI, won the 2021 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion for his co-authored book “Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States.” The Distinguished Book Award recognizes …

Professor Mitchell Douglas won the 2021 National Endowment for the Arts, Literature Fellowship in Creative Writing (Poetry). He is one of just thirty-five recipients nationwide. It’s a true honor and well deserved. Read more about his work here Mitchell L. H. Douglas is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, IU School of Liberal …

Congratulations to Dr. Nnaemeka who will receive an honorary doctorate from The American University of Paris (AUP). She will be honored during AUP’s commencement ceremony in May of 2022. AUP’s President, Dr. Celeste Schenck, said it best in her award letter to Dr. Nnaemeka. Her work represents “…the best of liberal arts inquiry and a …

In the academic world of scholarship and creative activity, Dr. Katherine V. Wills (aka Katerina Tsiopos) is both a scholar and poet. Professor of English and founding Director of the English program at IUPUC, she had two of her poems published as part of the INverse Poetry Archive. Her poems depict Indiana sporting life and …

Dr. Vijay O. Lulla and Dr. Owen J. Dwyer’s article “Racial Segregation in Indianapolis, 1990-2010: A Spatial Perspective,” won the George C. Roberts Award for best paper published in the Midwest Social Science Journal. Abstract The index of dissimilarity is the most widely used method for measuring racial segregation. When applied to Indianapolis, this index …

Prof. Malcolm Moran was awarded the 2021 Inspiring Sports Storyteller award by the Indiana Sports Corp. He was honored at the Pathfinder Awards event April 1st at Banker’s Life Fieldhouse. Prof. Moran was also featured on an episode of Inside Indiana Business with Gerry Dick. Malcolm Moran is Director of the Sports Capital Journalism Program …

Dr. Rachel Wheeler, along with her co-authors, recently won the Lester Cappon award for best article published in the William and Mary Quarterly in 2019 and the Robert F. Heizer award for best article published in the field of ethnohistory in 2019. The award-winning article is titled, “Singing Box 331: Re-Sounding Eighteenth-Century Mohican Hymns from …