Category: Faculty

Congratulations to our colleagues Dr. Amanda Friesen (Political Science) and Dr. Joseph Tucker Edmonds (Africana Studies and Religious Studies) for being selected to receive a Racial Justice Research Fund grant! Their work is titled, “The Black/Body Positive: Black Women, Faith, and Well-Being.” We’ll follow the progress of this research with great interest!

The Department of Political Science offers the traditional major in Political Science (which has consistently been one of the largest majors in the School of Liberal Arts) and added the Law in Liberal Arts major just a few years ago. Since its introduction, the Law in Liberal Arts major has been a wonderful success story, …

Congratulations to our colleague Dr. Pegg on his recent appointment to the advisory board of the new NGO called Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA). CAPPA “…works to advance human rights, challenge corporate abuse of our natural resources and build community power for inclusive development and participatory governance. CAPPA is a Pan – African …

Don’t miss any of the important voting deadlines coming up here in Indiana! Here is a helpful checklist from the League of Women Voters of Indianapolis:

Be sure and check out Dr. Pegg’s recent publication over at the De Facto States Research Unit titled “The Somaliland-Taiwan Partnership: A New Frontier in De Facto State Diplomacy.” Spoiler Alert: Barbara Streisand makes a surprise guest appearance! Check it out here

Preparation checklist for teaching our new hybrid-traditional classes (that’s IUPUI jargon for a class that has both in-person and synchronous online teaching). Step 1: Canvas Class Page Get the page published and let students know how this is going to work. Step 2: Zoom Half the class will be watching and participating from home through …

Be sure and check out Chalkbeat Indiana’s piece on the lack of an endorsement by the Indiana Political Action Committee for Education (which is connected with the Indiana State Teachers Association) in this year’s gubernatorial election. One might expect an organization like a teachers union to always endorse a candidate, but there are often more …

The COVID-19 pandemic has compelled universities and colleges to expand their online instruction offerings at an unprecedented rate. The shift, however, did not impact all instructors equally. On the one hand, most faculty members had to transform their in-person seminars into online classes within weeks quickly. In-person courses that were meticulously crafted through years, if …

We’re less than two weeks away from the start of the Fall 2020 semester and we’re ready for the challenge of delivering our classes in new formats. All of us in the Department of Political Science are diligently working to build our new hybrid classes, whether they are synchronous online or have both online and …

As the November 3rd elections continue to get closer, we asked members of the department a very simple question. Why vote? Here are our answers in 200 words or less. Bill Blomquist I vote (and recommend that others do so too) for a few reasons. First, elections really matter. No matter your philosophy or party, you …