Motor Sport Enthusiast Dr. Patrick Sullivan Details the Life of African-American Racing Pioneer Joie Ray in New Book

June 5, 2008 — A picture Joie Ray sitting in the cockpit of a race car with a beaming smile dominates the cover of Dr. Patrick Sullivan's new book about the racing pioneer.

IU School of Nursing “Celebrates Nurses and Those Who Teach Them” at Annual Event

April 28, 2008 — The IU School of Nursing (IUSON) is hosting its third annual "Celebration of Nursing" Luncheon on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 at the new IUPUI Campus Center, 4th Floor, Multipurpose Room from 11:15 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The purpose of this event is to recognize nurses who make an invaluable difference in the delivery of healthcare as well as to honor the individuals who teach them.   Full Story

IUPUI Professor Earns Fulbright Scholarship, Will Study African Youth “Cowboy” Subculture of the 1950s

April 24, 2008 — An IUPUI professor will spend the next academic year building an oral history of the 1950s African youth who, influenced by western movies, created a subculture that reflected Hollywood's version of the old American west.   Full Story

Hamilton County’s Boxley Cabin is Site for IUPUI Archaeological Dig

April 24, 2008 — The grounds of the recently restored home of Hamilton County, Adams Township's first white settler - a 19th century Virginia abolitionist with a $1,000 bounty on his head - will be the site of this summer's IUPUI archeological dig.   Full Story

Dow AgroSciences and IUPUI Celebrate Women’s History Month with Free Exhibit

March 17, 2008 — As long as there has been chemistry, women have made contributions that affect everyday life—from providing farmers with products designed to help them protect crops to inventing a fabric that can stop a bullet. The history of women chemists is a story of great discoverers. Meet the women who dared in a new exhibit at IUPUI.   Full Story

Missy Kubitschek

Awards

Fellow, Andrew White Society for the Humanities (Cornell University) 1988-89;

Outstanding Woman Faculty Leader at IUPUI, 2005

Publications

Toni Morrison (Greenwood 1998), Claiming the Heritage: African American Women Novelists and History (University Press of Mississippi 1991);

articles in African American Review, Melus, CLA Journal and Frontiers

Service

Advisory Board Member, African American Review and MELUS: Minority and Ethnic Literature of the United States

John McKivigan

Publications

The War Against Proslavery Religion: Abolitionism and the Northern Churches(Cornell University Press 1984);

(co-editor)Biography and the Historical Moment (Greenwood Press 1994);

Slavery, Sectionalism, and American Religion (University of Georgia Press1998);

and Antislavery Violence (University of Tennessee Press 1999);

(editor of a modern edition) James Redpath's 1959 book The Roving Editor; or, Talks with the Slaves in the Southern States (Penn State University Press 1996);

and over thirty-five articles and book chapters