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Dr. Elizabth Thill recently published the chapter titled, “Public Sculpture and Social Practice in the Roman Empire,” in the book The Oxford Handbook of Roman Imagery and Iconography published by Oxford University Press. Description This volume focuses primarily on visual imagery in the Roman world, examined by context and period, and the evolving scholarly traditions …

Dr. Karen Kovacik recently published a collection of translated poems by Polish writer Krystyna Dąbrowska with Zephyr Press titled Tideline. The book includes work from Dąbrowska’s first four books in Poland. About Exquisitely-crafted poems from Poland that explore how stories, and history, lie beneath the surface: of a neighbor’s face, city streets, ancient ruins, even …

Dr. Estela Ene will publish a new co-edited volume this month with the University of Michigan Press titled, Building Internationalized Space: Second Language Perspectives on Developing Language and Cultural Exchange Programs in Higher Education. Get 30% off with the promotion code: UMS22 Description This book provides case studies from several higher education contexts to represent …

Sociologist Andrew Whitehead, co-director of the Association of Religion Data Archives at the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture at IU Indianapolis, 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 …

Professor Chris Lamb’s Conspiracy of Silence: Sportswriters and the Long Campaign to Desegregate Baseball, originally published in 2012, released in paperback this month. About: The campaign to desegregate baseball was one of the most important civil rights stories of the 1930s and 1940s. But most of white America knew nothing about this story because mainstream …

by John McCormick All of us who have been through college – as students or professors – are familiar with textbooks: those sometimes long and often expensive tomes designed to summarize everything an instructor wants to cover in a course. We’re also familiar with the differences between the good, the bad, and the ugly ones. …

My first book, Blackout: The Untold Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Spring Training (University of Nebraska Press, 2004), was released as an audiobook a week ago. The narrator is New York actor and producer Peter Lerman. Blackout chronicles Jackie Robinson’s tremendous ordeal during the crucial spring training of 1946, a full year away from breaking major …

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. Paul Mullins recently published his new book, Revolting Things: An Archeology of Shameful Histories and Repulsive Realities with the University Press of Florida. Overview In this book, Paul Mullins examines a wide variety of material objects and landscapes that induce anxiety, provoke unpleasantness, or simply revolt us. Bringing archaeological insight to subjects that are …

Dr. Obioma G. Nnaemeka is the co-editor of a new book titled, Gendered Violence and Human Rights in Black World Literature and Film.   Book Description: This book investigates how the intersection between gendered violence and human rights is depicted and engaged with in Africana literature and films. The rich and multifarious range of film …