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Drs. Kenzie Mintus and Scott Landes (Syracuse University) won an Emerald Literati Award for Outstanding Author Contribution for their chapter “Integrating the Social and Political Dimensions of Disability Into Life Course Theory.” According to the the Emerald Literati website, the Outstanding Contributions award recognizes “authors who have contributed something new and significant to their area …

Indiana has six laws that criminalize people living with HIV (PLWH), including two that make it a felony to donate blood, plasma, and semen for artificial insemination if a person knows they have HIV.  A new report by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law finds that at least 18 people were prosecuted under Indiana’s …

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 …

Drs. Jennifer Bute and Maria Brann, Department of Communicaiton Studies at Indiana University-Indianapolis, recently presented a live webinar for the Institute of Reproductive Grief Care’s “Research Reveals” series to discuss their groundbreaking research on a novel reproductive grief screening tool, which according to an MSN article, has the potential to “reshape mental health treatment, open …

Professor Chris Lamb with the Department of Journalism and Public Relations at IU Indianapolis, teaches a course called Fake News. The course name was inspired by President Donald Trump, who falsely claimed to have invented the term. Trump’s lies and misstatements are well chronicled. As he explains, “I wanted to chronicle his failure as a …

Congratulations to Elizabeth Nelson, Indiana University Indianapolis, for winning the Annual Book Award from the National Council on Public History, which recognizes outstanding scholarship that addresses the theory and/or practice of public history or that includes the products of public history work. Click here to purchase the book, Co Edited with Michelle Jones, New York …

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 …

Drs. Jennifer Bute and Maria Brann, along with a team of researchers from across the country, recently published a novel screening tool, Reproductive Grief Screen, to identify patients who may be experiencing ongoing, complicated grief following a pregnancy loss.  Click here for the press release highlighting the critical importance of this new tool and read …

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 …

Dr. Rachel Wheeler, Chair of the Department of Religous Studies at IU Indianapolis published and excellent and timely opinion piece in Inside Higher Ed, titled: A Cure for Humanities Deficiency Syndrome. She eloquently lays out a strong argument against the logic that has led to many universities across the country cutting Humanities programs. To help …