IU School of Liberal Arts

Reburial of Native American Remains Earns Professor International Award

July 16, 2008 — An Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) professor's early career decision to rebury Native American human remains - an act then considered academic suicide - recently earned the professor international recognition for significant contributions to world archaeology.   Full Story

University Experts Offer Perspectives on Home Mortgage Crisis

July 16, 2008 — Experts at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) are available for media interviews regarding the current mortgage banking crisis   Full Story

Making Decisions About The Water We Drink

June 30, 2008 — The politics of managing the watersheds and river basins which provide water for the millions of inhabitants of New York City, Los Angeles, the Pacific Northwest and other increasingly thirsty areas of the country are explored in Embracing Watershed Politics, a new book which asks whether and how politics are getting in the way as Americans try to better manage and protect the natural re¬sources of our watersheds.   Full Story

University College Renamed in Honor of IUPUI “Founding Father” Joseph Taylor

May 23, 2008 — The 815 W. Michigan Street building,formerly University College, has been renamed Joseph T. Taylor Hall, in honor of Joseph T. Taylor, the first dean of the IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI. Taylor's widow, Hertha Taylor, and other family members were special guests during the official renaming ceremony held May 19.   Full Story

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

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