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Indiana has six laws that criminalize people living with HIV (PLWH), spanning both the public health and criminal codes. A new report by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law evaluates whether these laws reflect current understandings of HIV science and whether they criminalize conduct that poses negligible or no negligible or no risk …

Prof. Estela Ene, Chair of the English Department, represents the school and the fields of TESOL/Applied Linguistics and Second Language Writing on national task force on AI andwriting. Click here to learn more on the critically important work being done by the task force.

IU Indianapolis Journalism Professor Jonas Bjork recent insightful article published in Swedish-American Historical Quarterly discussing how SE, a Swedish magazine with a primarily working-class audience, covered race relations in the U.S. during the civil-rights era. Coming from an ethnically homogeneous country, the magazine’s reporters struggled at times with conveying the issues facing African-Americans to their …

Campus Pre-Law Advisor and Clinical Associate Professor of Political Science Shana Stump was interviewed in The Indiana Lawyer about upcoming changes to the LSAT for pre-law students. Click here to read the full article.

Associate Professor Andrew Whitehead’s second book on Christian nationalism titled, “American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church,” releases August 15 from Brazos Press. The Library Journal’s review stated the book is “Heartfelt, incisive, and worthy of thoughtful consideration.” In this book, he shares his journey and reveals how Christian nationalism threatens …

Congratulations! Edward Curtis, William M. and Gail M. Plater Chair of the Liberal Arts and Professor of Religious Studies, received two Emmy awards at the annual awards banquet of the Central Great Lakes Chapter of the National Association of Television Arts & Sciences. Curtis received both Emmys for his work as on “Arab Indianapolis: A …

On Oct 4, The Indiana General Assembly interim legislative study committee declared unanimous support for modernizing Indiana’s HIV criminal Laws. Dr. Carrie Foote, a national expert on HIV stigma and criminal law reform, from the IU Indianapolis  Sociology Department and chair of the HIV Modernization Movement-Indiana was among key experts testifying in favor of reform. …

Dr Carrie Foote, IU Indianapolis Sociology, was among a group of lawmakers and other stakeholders who discussed possible changes to Indiana laws concerning HIV-specific criminal penalties and sentence enhancements during an Indiana General Assembly Legislative Study session on August 30. Doctors, Public Health and Public Defender leaders argued that reforming HIV criminal laws will destigmatize …

Emmett Till’s murder is an outrage that still haunts our history. So do the lies in the media set in motion by the discovery of his mutilated body 67 years ago. Read more in this recent essay in The Nation by Chris Lamb, Chair of the department of journalism and public relations at IU Indianapolis. …

Dr Carrie Foote in Sociology was interviewed for this article about the first ever Indiana General Assembly summer study session on the state’s criminal laws concerning HIV.  “Current scientific knowledge has resulted in existing laws being outdated, Human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, was first officially reported in the United States in the early 1980s. The …