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Posted on March 6th, 2024 in Featured by Aaron Dusso

This site features the wide-ranging research, community engagement, and creative activity of the faculty in the IU School of Liberal Arts (SLA) at IU Indianapolis. Faculty member SLAte Blog, please see the submission form.      

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Posted on May 2nd, 2023 in Announcements, Article, Community Engagement, Faculty, Featured, Publication, Research by David E. Hoegberg

For Arab American Heritage Month, Professor Edward Curtis explores his own Arab American roots in Southern Illinois, where his Syrian-Lebanese great-grandfather settled in 1899. What he discovered—a secret love affair and the surprising sympathetic press coverage—challenges what we think we know about the small-town Midwest. His article, “Moses of Cairo (Illinois),” was published April 24 …

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Posted on April 21st, 2023 in Alumni, Announcements, Book, Community Engagement, Faculty, Featured, Grant, Publication, Research, Student/Alumni by David E. Hoegberg

What if prisoners were to write the history of their own prison? What might that tell them—and all of us—about the roots of the system that incarcerates so many millions of Americans? These questions are addressed in a groundbreaking and revelatory volume co-edited by Dr. Elizabeth Nelson, Assistant Professor of Medical Humanities & Health Studies …

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Posted on February 18th, 2023 in Announcements, Book, Creative Activity, Events, Faculty, Featured, Publication, Research by David E. Hoegberg

Writer Sarah Layden, Assistant Professor of English in the IU School of Liberal Arts at IU Indianapolis, has two books coming out this spring. The Invisible Art of Literary Editing, a textbook co-authored with Butler University Writer-in-Residence Bryan Furuness, will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in March. Layden also will moderate a panel on literary …

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Posted on February 10th, 2023 in Announcements, Community Engagement, Creative Activity, Events, Faculty, Featured, Students by David E. Hoegberg

The newest exhibit at the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site, Residential to Presidential, explores the history of the house, its residents, and its role as a museum. Starting with its grand opening on January 26, 2023, the exhibit enables visitors to learn about what it takes to make a house a home and what it takes …

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Posted on February 10th, 2023 in Announcements, Community Engagement, Events, Faculty, Featured, Honors, Research by David E. Hoegberg

Drs. Maria Brann and Jennifer Bute, faculty members in the Department of Communication Studies in the IU School of Liberal Arts at IU Indianapolis, have been invited to speak at a historic, groundbreaking symposium hosted by the Institute of Reproductive Grief Care. The Institute of Reproductive Grief Care, the global authority on reproductive grief care …

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