Blomquist Appointed Dean of the School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI

May 15, 2008 — IUPUI Chancellor Charles R. Bantz is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor William Blomquist as the next Dean of the School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI, pending approval by the IU Board of Trustees.   Full Story

IUPUI Celebrates Career of Sharon Hamilton

May 15, 2008 — The Office of Academic Affairs and the IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI are hosting a celebration of the exemplary career of Sharon Hamilton from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. May 15 in the University Place Conference Center ballroom.   Full Story

Krauss To Direct IU Public Policy Institute

May 12, 2008 — Indiana University's School of Public and Environmental Affairs today announced it has established the Indiana University Public Policy Institute. John L. Krauss, an IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs faculty member at IUPUI and former Indianapolis deputy mayor, will direct the Institute.   Full Story

Joseph Taylor Naming Dedication Ceremony To Be Held May 19

May 9, 2008 — The IUPUI community will gather at 4:30 p.m. May 19 in the courtyard in front of University College to honor the memory of one of its founders, Dr. Joseph T. Taylor.   Full Story

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

Nathan Houser

Awards

Fulbright-Hays Award

Publications

in Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, The American Journal of Semiotics, Études Phénoménologiques, ModernLogic, and Documentary Editing, and a number of American and German anthologies; an article on the history of algebraic logic for theRoutledge Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences; an article on Charles S. Peirce for theSupplement for Edward's Encyclopedia of Philosophy; and (general editor) of the projected thirty-volume Writings of Charles S. Peirce (IndianaUniversity Press)

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