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 …
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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 …
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IU Indianapolis Professor of History Xin Zhang was awarded the CHUS Academic Excellence Book Award from the Chinese Historians in the U.S. (Jan. 2024) for his book titled The Global in the Local: A Century of War, Commerce, and Technology (Cambridge: Harvard University Press 2023). The traditional Chinese version of this book has now been …
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Four books by three IU School of Liberal Arts in Indianapolis faculty members were named to the 2024 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards shortlists. Edward E. Curtis, William M. and Gail M. Plater Chair of the Liberal Arts and Professor of World Languages & Cultures, had two books on the nonfiction shortlist: Muslims …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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In May 2024, as an active member of the American Industrial Hygiene Association’s (AIHA) Museum and Cultural Heritage Industry Working Group, Professor Holly Cusack-McVeigh partnered with some of our nation’s leading experts and scientists to forge new, exciting research collaborations that address these real-world problems while creating unique research opportunities for my students. Project Description: …
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Dr. Ulla Connor, an English Professor at IU Indianapolis, and an interdisciplinary team of healthcare professionals working with the International Center for Intercultural Communication are currently conducting two research projects in the use of a novel, validated communication system, the CoMac Segmentation and Communication System, in health care contexts in the IU Department of Anesthesia …
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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 …
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