Senior Lecturer Molly Block was awarded the Dean’s Departmental Hero Award! The new award is given by the Associate Dean for Social and Historical Sciences to a faculty member nominated by the Chair.
Faculty and Staff Highlights
Jon Brauer sponsored Dr. SeungHoon “Simon” Han, a visiting international scholar, this academic year. Dr. Han visited us while on sabbatical leave from the Department of Public Service at Chung-Ang University in South Korea, following a term serving as chair of the department.
Fiona Chan and her co-author received the Outstanding Article or Book Chapter Award for the Division of White Collar & Corporate Crime at the ASC meeting. Read their article, here: When Guardians Become Offenders: Understanding Guardian Capability through the Lens of Corporate Crime.
Fiona Chan was honored at the Evening of Celebrations with the Trustee Teaching Award for 2024. The award honors faculty who had a positive impact on student learning, especially undergraduates. The Trustees Teaching Awards are given each spring to honor outstanding teaching during the prior calendar year.
Bonnie Ernst was awarded the Trustee Teaching Award for 2025. The award honors faculty who had a positive impact on student learning, especially undergraduates. The Trustees Teaching Awards are given each spring to honor outstanding teaching during the prior calendar year.
Bonnie Ernst’s book Challenging Confinement: Mass Incarceration and the Fight for Equality in Women’s Prisons tells the story of incarcerated women who fought for gender and racial equality in prisons and pushed against mass incarceration. Dr. Ernst was a featured guest at The Ann Arbor District Library to talk about the book and was honored at the IU College of Arts + Sciences Book Celebration. A review of the book was also published in The American Historical Review.
The College of Arts + Sciences featured a video about Adam Ghazi-Tehrani for IU Day. The video highlights Dr. Ghazi-Tehrani’s new cybercrime lab and the research that will be conducted there. You can check out the video on the College's Instagram.
Tri Keah Henry was selected for the Enhanced Mentoring Program with Opportunities for Ways to Excel in Research (EMPOWER) program. The goal of this IU system-wide program is to help junior faculty members improve grantsmanship skills to become productive, externally funded researchers. She will be mentored by Natalie Hipple.
Tri Keah Henry and Leon Pettiway (Professor Emeritus) were members of a panel titled “Rethinking Race, Crime, and Justice” in September at the Atherton Union at Butler University.
In November Natalie Hipple became the Past President of the Association of Doctoral Programs in Criminology and Criminal Justice after serving three years as President.
Miriam Northcutt Bohmert was elected Vice President of the Association of Doctoral Programs in Criminology and Criminal Justice. She will serve in this position for two years before becoming President.
Marla Sandys work retired IU Indianapolis faculty member Fran Watson culminated in the kickoff of The Indiana Innocence Project. More information can be found in our Events section.
Arvind Verma was awarded both an Indiana University Global Gateway Grant and the Huffman International Research Award, supporting his work on “Policing Indian Democracy” during the summer. His research will study how the colonial police model designed by the British to rule India has adapted to the democratic polity of an independent nation.
Senior Adjunct Lecturer Todd Burkhardt’s work on the Creative Arts for Vets (CAV) book with the IU Center for Rural Engagement was the focus of an article in the WTUI News. The Arts for Youth (A4Y) Book was also highlighted by the Center for Rural Engagement.
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