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

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

Peace and Justice Summit Looks at Role of Activists in Presidential Election Year

March 27, 2008 — The Fourth Annual Midwest Peace and Justice Summit will take place Friday and Saturday, April 4 and 5, 2008, at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).   Full Story

Does Indiana need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission?

Nov. 8, 2007 — Jim Lowwen, the author of "Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your High School History Textbook Got Wrong," and "Lies Across America," will address the issue of whether a truth and reconciliation commission would be beneficial during a presentation at 5:30 p.m. Monday, November 12, at University Library, Room 1126.   Full Story

Biracial Sisterhood Laid Groundwork for Civil Rights Movement

July 30, 2007 — A new book by Nancy Marie Robertson of the School of Liberal Arts of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis explores how the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), the nation's major national biracial women's organization, provided a unique venue for women to respond to American race relations during the first half of the twentieth century and laid the groundwork for the subsequent civil rights movement. Dr. Robertson is an associate professor of history and philanthropic studies and also directs the women's studies program.   Full Story

IUPUI to Host Author Janet Bell in Reading at Crispus Attucks

May 30, 2007 — IUPUI University Library will host a reading of Janet Cheatham Bell's new memoir, The Time and Place That Gave Me Life.   Full Story

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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