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Dr. Marilee Brooks-Gillies recently published the chapter “Embracing Difficult Conversations: Making Antiracist and Decolonial Writing Center Programming Visible,” in Linguistic Justice on Campus: Pedagogy and Advocacy for Multilingual Students published by Multilingual Matters About This book supports writing educators on college campuses to work towards linguistic equity and social justice for multilingual students. It demonstrates …

Senior Associate Faculty member Norman Minnick recently published the edited volume, The Lost Etheridge: Uncollected Poems of Etheridge Knight with ‎ Kinchafoonee Creek Press About This book contains over 200 poems — many previously unpublished — by the late poet Etheridge Knight Norman L. Minnick is a Senior Associate Faculty member in the Department of …

Dr. Elizabth Thill recently published the chapter titled, “Public Sculpture and Social Practice in the Roman Empire,” in the book The Oxford Handbook of Roman Imagery and Iconography published by Oxford University Press. Description This volume focuses primarily on visual imagery in the Roman world, examined by context and period, and the evolving scholarly traditions …

Dr. Karen Kovacik recently published a collection of translated poems by Polish writer Krystyna Dąbrowska with Zephyr Press titled Tideline. The book includes work from Dąbrowska’s first four books in Poland. About Exquisitely-crafted poems from Poland that explore how stories, and history, lie beneath the surface: of a neighbor’s face, city streets, ancient ruins, even …

Dr. Estela Ene will publish a new co-edited volume this month with the University of Michigan Press titled, Building Internationalized Space: Second Language Perspectives on Developing Language and Cultural Exchange Programs in Higher Education. Get 30% off with the promotion code: UMS22 Description This book provides case studies from several higher education contexts to represent …

Dr. Devon Hensel recently published the article, “Sexual Modesty in Sexual Expression and Experience: A Scoping Review, 2000 – 2021” in The Journal of Sex Research. ABSTRACT Sexual modesty is the social, cultural, interpersonal, and psychological systems – defined by the tenets of Script Theory – that regulate individuals’ sexual expression and experience at the …

Congratulations to Dr. Edward Curtis who was recently awarded a $250,000 grant by the Religion and Theology Program of the Henry Luce Foundation to advance knowledge about race, justice and religion in America! Read more about it here. Edward E. Curtis IV is Professor of Religious Studies and the William M. and Gail M. Plater …

Sociologist Andrew Whitehead, co-director of the Association of Religion Data Archives at the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture at IU Indianapolis, won the 2021 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion for his co-authored book “Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States.” The Distinguished Book …

On the anniversary of the Capitol insurrection many are still trying to figure out why it happened and what it means for our country moving forward. There are a handful of reasons thousands of Americans rioted that day. While not the only reason, a key influence was white Christian nationalism. My colleague Sam Perry and …

Dr. Nancy Robertson was recently selected as a Fellow of the Institute of Engaged Learning’s new Project-Based Learning Lab! Learn more about the new Project-Based Learning Lab here. Nancy M. Robertson is an Associate Professor in the Department of History, IU School of Liberal Arts