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English Instructors
Posted on August 21st, 2024 in Announcements, Book, Faculty, Grant, Students by Carrie E. Foote

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 …

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Posted on January 30th, 2024 in Announcements, Award, Faculty, Grant by Carrie E. Foote

Dr. Andrew Whitehead, co-directs the Association of Religion Data Archives (the ARDA) at the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture; they were awarded a $1.6 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation to use the ARDA to Strengthen the Religion Research Community, 2023-2026.  Click here to read more about this important project …

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Posted on August 25th, 2023 in Announcements, Grant, Research by Andrew L. Whitehead

The IU School of Liberal Arts and IU Indianapolis just announced that Professor Brian Steensland, who serves as Chair of the Sociology Department, was awarded a $1.2 million grant from Lilly Endowment, Inc. in order to study “the hopes, challenges, and experiences of parents in the Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis in passing on their religious …

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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 22nd, 2023 in Announcements, Book, Community Engagement, Events, Faculty, Grant, Internships, Publication, Research, Students by David E. Hoegberg

The year 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Frederick Douglass Papers, a research arm of the Institute for American Thought within the IU School of Liberal Arts. The project collects, edits, and publishes the speeches, correspondence, and writings of the iconic African American Frederick Douglass, a runaway Maryland slave who became an …

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Posted on February 17th, 2023 in Announcements, Award, Book, Faculty, Grant, In-Progress, Students by David E. Hoegberg

In December, Jennifer Mahoney and Andy Buchenot, both faculty members in the Department of English at IU Indianapolis, were awarded a $5000 Bridge to the Future grant. Funded through philanthropic donations from the IU Indianapolis Chancellor’s Circle, the grant will support the design, creation, and pilot of an open educational resource (OER) for use in …

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