Republished from News at IU, by Barbara Brosher When Lisa Harton started a lesson centered on “The Spider Weaver” in her first-grade classroom, tools from Indiana University helped her transport her students far beyond the book’s pages. Harton, who teaches at Spring Mill Elementary School in Indianapolis, used Windows to the World: Digital Artifacts for… Read more »
Hamilton Lugar School faculty members Shahyar Daneshgar, Michael De Groot, Morten Oxenboell and Attia Youseif received the 2023 Trustees Teaching Award recognizing outstanding teaching and honoring faculty who have had a positive impact on student learning, especially undergraduates. Department chairs and deans identify candidates for the Trustees Teaching Awards, and those who are selected are… Read more »
The IU Hamilton Lugar School will convene scholars and experts for a panel discussion on how activists are fighting for reproductive justice around the world. On the Front Lines: Activist Movements for Reproductive Justice is the latest event in the Global Perspectives on Reproductive Justice series. The event will take place on Wednesday, April 12… Read more »
In her recently published book, Just One Rain Away: The Ethnography of River-City Flood Control (2022), Hamilton Lugar School Professor of International Studies Stephanie Kane explores the issue of climate change via river-city flooding and pushes her readers to think outside the box when seeking solutions to the climate crisis. In announcing the book’s release,… Read more »
IU Professor Nick Vogt explores ritual and power in early Chinese history in his new book published by Cambridge University Press. Vogt is a faculty member in the East Asian Languages and Cultures department at the IU Hamilton Lugar School. Description of Kingship, Ritual, and Royal Ideology in Western Zhou China: In accounts of Chinese… Read more »
Hilary Holbrow, assistant professor of Japanese Politics and Society in the Hamilton Lugar School (HLS) Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALC), recently completed a seven-month National Endowment for the Humanities Advanced Social Science Research on Japan Fellowship. The fellowship is a joint effort between the Japan-United States Friendship Commission (JUSFC) and the National… Read more »
The Rich and the Pure cited as ‘a major influence on future studies’ Hamilton Lugar School (HLS) Professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures Daniel Caner’s book, The Rich and the Pure: Philanthropy and the Making of Christian Society in Early Byzantium (University of California, 2021), has been awarded the 2022 Philip Schaff Prize by the… Read more »
Reposted from IU Newsroom A Global Indigenous Studies Workshop on Nov. 4 and 5 at Indiana University Bloomington will kick off a new campus network that brings scholars, activists and policymakers together to address questions of indigeneity. Morten Oxenboell, director of the East Asian Studies Center in the IU Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, said he… Read more »
The Hamilton Lugar School’s Wendy Leutert is one of three recipients of the 2022 Emerging Scholars Policy Prize from Foreign Affairs and University of Pennsylvania Perry World House. The prize recognizes original research presented in an essay that is easily accessible to policymakers and the broader public. Leutert is an assistant professor and the GLP-Ming… Read more »
Hamilton Lugar School (HLS) welcomes Clare Griffin and Aaron Ponce who both started tenure track faculty positions beginning Fall 2022. For Griffin, an expert on Russia, this is her first time living in the United States. Ponce, an expert on immigration in Europe, is an Indiana University (IU) alumnus returning to campus in a new… Read more »
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