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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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Professor of Sociology Andrew Whitehead’s most recent book, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church, won the 2023 Gold Medal book award for Religion from Foreword Reviews. The mission of Foreword Reviews is to help booksellers and librarians discover great books from indie presses. Professor Whitehead also directs the Association …

Congratulations to three Faculty in the School of Liberal Arts at Indiana University Indianapolis for these outstanding National Award from National Council on Public History. The Robert Kelley Memorial Award distinguished achievements by individuals, institutions, or nonprofit or corporate entities for making history relevant to the individual lives of ordinary people outside of academia. Awarded …

Dr. Kelly Hayes, Dept. of Religious Studies newly published work, Spirits of the Space Age: The Imagined World of Brazil’s Valley of the Dawn, 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 …

Assistant Professor of English Sarah Layden‘s new book of short stories, Imagine Your Life Like This, was reviewed by Kathryn Ludwig for the Indiana Authors Awards book reviews, which makes the reviews available to newspapers across the state. Layden was interviewed about the book by Indiana Humanities/Indiana Authors Awards. Click here to Watch the interview:  …