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Professor Edward Curtis has added another documentary to his list of film credits, which include The Great Muslim American Road Trip and the Emmy award-winning Arab Indianapolis. Curtis, director of the Arabic and Islamic studies minor and the William M. and Gail M. Plater Chair of the Liberal Arts at IU Indianapolis, recently served as …

Dr. Carrie Foote was recognized at the Annual Indiana University Harvey Milk Dinner, which honors the memory of Harvey Milk and celebrates the LGBTQ+ community at IU Indianapolis and beyond. She was awarded the Sylvia Rivera Award for her activism for the last decade building the HIV Modernization Movement-Indiana and working to end HIV stigma, …

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 …

Professor Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, team member of the Indy Toxic Heritage: Pollution, Place, and Power exhibit, invites you to view the exhibit at the Riverside Park Family Center through September 28th. There will also be a public conversation on Thursday, September 26th, 5-7pm with photographer Wildstyle Paschall and journalist Enrique Saenz. They will be sharing their …

Professor Edward Curtis, newly-appointed director of Arabic Studies program, has announced his three-year plan for the future of the program. Curtis’ goals include the following: Community Engagement. The program will rely on a soon-to-be-announced Community Advisory Board to identify opportunities for mutually-beneficial research, teaching, and service both on and off campus with members of the …

On April 25, 2024, Edward Curtis, Plater Chair of the Liberal Arts (Indiana University Indianapolis), led the official ceremony to dedicate Indiana Historical Bureau’s Syrian Quarter marker at Lucas Oil Stadium, where immigrants from the Eastern Mediterranean developed the first Arabic-speaking neighborhood in Indianapolis. Speakers included Curtis, who is also President of Arab Indianapolis Foundation, …

Dr. Amy Shansami, Sociology at IU Indianapolis, has a chapter in the newly published anthology, Home: Multilingual Funds of Knowledge Parent Stories. The Anthology project is spearheaded by IU Columbus Education Associate Professor Laura Liu to foster community sharing of multicultural, multilingual funds of knowledge, resulting in an anthology of 15 parent-written stories. The publication …

Associate Professor of Sociology Andrew Whitehead appears as a featured voice in a new documentary on Christian nationalism titled GOD & COUNTRY. The film opens in theaters nationwide–including Indianapolis–on Friday, February 16. GOD & COUNTRY takes a closer look at the dangerous implications and explores how a base of Christians has radically stoked a movement …

Congratulations to Dr. Carrie Foote for receviing the HIV Advocacy Award from the Indianapolis Urban League for her community based HIV criminal law reform advocacy and scholarship as  Chair and co-founder of the HIV Modernization Movement-Indiana (HMM) and a national expert on HIV criminal law reform! She is a long-term HIV-thriver who was once homeless, …

Build Community Give Care (BCGC) is a new non-profit organization created to address health disparities in West and sub-Saharan Africa. The right of all people living with serious illness to be free of avoidable pain and to die with dignity is widely recognized, and palliative care has been declared a universal human right. Relying on …