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Baxter, Nick

Becoming an ogre: Identity work as a postmodern leisure subculture activity
Nicholas M. Baxter
In "Studies in Symbolic Interaction"
Vol. 54, 2022
Are you a werewolf? Teaching symbolic interaction theory through game play
Christopher T. Conner & Nicholas M. Baxter
Teaching Sociology
Vol. 50, No. 1, p. 17-27, 2022

Brown, Kelly

Student and Faculty Perceptions of the Impact of Masks on Student Learning and Communication in the Classroom
Shine, Brown, Felts, and Mitchell
Midwest Social Sciences Journal: Vol. 26: Iss. 1, Article 8.
2023

Canada, Mark

Reimagining student learning: Transformative pedagogies
Mark Canada and Jeffrey Gayton
In "Radical Reimagining for Student Success in Higher Education, edited by Jo Arney, Timothy M. Dale, Glenn Davis, and Jillian Kinzie
Stylus Publishing, 2023

Clark, Kevin

Embodied imagination: Lakoff and Johnson’s experientialist view of conceptual understanding
Clark
Review of General Psychology, 28(2), 166–183.
2024
Tribalism and compassion in the age of a pandemic
Kevin M. Clark & Eric Bain-Selbo
Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Vol. 105, No. 2, p. 143-223, 2022

Coby, Jim

The Bone Machine in the Garden: Listening to Tom Waits in the Anthropocene.
Coby, Jim
Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities, 121-134
February 2024
(Book Review) Adventurers, Entrepreneurs, and Scoundrels: A Review of The Strange by Nathan Ballingrud.
North Carolina Literary Review Online
33.2 (2024): 70-71
(Book Review) Any Lost Object Is Cursed: On Paul Tremblay’s “Horror Movie”
Los Angeles Review of Books
(2024)
BOOM! SPLAT!: Comics and violence
Edited by Jim Coby & Joanna Davis-McElligatt
University Press of Mississippi, 2024
On publishing a campus literary journal
Jim Coby & Saul Lemerond
Indiana English
Vol. 1, No. 1, p. 36-48, 2023
Chapter One: Life after death in Lydia Millet's A Children's Bible
Jim Coby
In "Stratified Nature in Women's Writing: Past, Present, and Future", edited by Marie Hendry
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023
"Her perfume was moonshine": Gender and alcohol in Franklin and Fennelly's The Tilted World
Jim Coby
Journal of the Georgia Philological Association
Vol. 10, p. 29-41, 2021-2022
The Gulf South
Jim Coby
In "The Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South"
2023
Shelter From the Machine: Homesteaders in the Age of Capitalism
Jim Coby
Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies
Vol. 53, No. 2, p. 155-157, 2022
People constructed of pain and grief’: A Review of When Ghosts Come Home by Wiley Cash
Jim Coby
North Carolina Literary Review Online
Winter 2022
“The business of writing and the work of reading”: A conversation with Wiley Cash
Jim Coby
North Carolina Literary Review
Vol. 31, No. 1, p. 118-133, 2022

Cook, Paul

A Genealogy of Failure
Corbett, Steven J. (Ed.). (2024). A Genealogy of Failure. P. Cook, If at First You Don’t Succeed? Writing, Rhetoric, and the Question of Failure (pp.21-46). The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado. DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2024.2494.2.01
Misinformation Studies and Higher Education in the Postdigital Era
Lexington Books
2024
"The total pattern of the world": Misinformation across the curriculum (MAC) and the next fifty years of higher education
Paul Cook
The WAC Journal
Vol. 34, 2023
Beyond 'fake news': Misinformation studies for a postdigital era
Paul Cook
In "Education in the Age of Misinformation: Philosophical and Pedagogical Explorations", edited by Lana Parker
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023
From The Freshman to The Chair: 100 years of college life in film and tv
Paul Cook
Genuine Gold: A Literary Journal
Vol. 1, 2022

Darr, Chris

Banking on the future: Student academic performance, retention, graduation, and instructor type
Sarah E. Heath, Christopher R. Darr & Lalatendu Acharya
Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Vol. 22, No. 4, 2022
The fake one is the real one: Finstas, authenticity, and context collapse in teen friend groups
Christopher R. Darr & Erin F. Doss
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Vol. 27, No. 4, 2022

Davis, Rosalyn

Overworked and Undervalued: Black Women and Success in America
Edited by Rosalyn D. Davis and Sharon L. Bowman
Lexington Books, 2023

Doss, Erin

The fake one is the real one: Finstas, authenticity, and context collapse in teen friend groups
Christopher R. Darr & Erin F. Doss
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Vol. 27, No. 4, 2022

Douglas, Minda

Nature's Beauty, Hummingbird & Dragonfly Gallery, international call, online exhibition out of Los Angeles, CA.
Forces of Nature, Rhode Island Watercolor Society, online exhibition, national call.
Animalia, International call, Arts Benicia, Benicia, California, in person exhibition.
Celebrating the Flora and Fauna of the Midwest, regional call, Burnt Sienna Gallery, Galena, Illinois, in person exhibition.
Open Space: Art About the Land, Minnetrista Museum, Muncie, Indiana, regional call
Southern Graphics Council International Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, juried portfolio and Member's Portfolio participation, March 2022.
The Unknown Nature of Being, Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac, Arizona, National Juried Exhibition, April 2022.
The Animal Kingdom, Knoll Gallery, Denver, Colorado, National Juried Exhibition, May 2022.
Optical Impermanence, Purdue University Rueff Galleries, August, 2022.
Optical Impermanence, IMPACT conference: The Printmaker's Voice in Bristol, UK, September, 2022.

Felts, Chris

Student and Faculty Perceptions of the Impact of Masks on Student Learning and Communication in the Classroom
Shine, Brown, Felts, and Mitchell
Midwest Social Sciences Journal: Vol. 26: Iss. 1, Article 8.
2023

Heath, Sarah

Banking on the future: Student academic performance, retention, graduation, and instructor type
Sarah E. Heath, Christopher R. Darr & Lalatendu Acharya
Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Vol. 22, No. 4, 2022

Keener, Joe

Time-haunted mutability, cognition, and Christopher Marlowe's Edward II
Joe Keener
In "The Monarch and the (Non)-Human in Literature and Cinema: Western and Global Perspectives," edited by Nizar Zouidi
Routledge, 2023

Koerner, Michael

2024: Bridging Art & Humanity Through Satire
- Feature 9 pg article/interview in June 3rd 2024 issue of Insights of An Eco Artist Magazine, Portugal
2024: Conversation Piece (internationally juried online exhibition) - Naturalist Gallery
Rise & Fall (Solo Exhibition) - IU Kokomo Campus Gallery
Out of Hand-Tradition Meets Tech (National Exhibition) - AnnMarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center in Association with the Smithsonian Institute, Solomon's Island, MD
8th Annual Wabash Valley Midwest Regional Exhibition - Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN
- Sarah Decker Ning Award of Distinction for The Journey is the Destination

McFarland, Andrew

Regeneration through sport : football, sport, and cultural modernization in Spain, 1890-1920
Andrew McFarland
Routledge, 2023
"Such, such have been the joys": Teaching twentieth-century European history with George Orwell
Andrew McFarland
The History Teacher
Vol. 55, No. 3, p. 529-552, 2022
La Furia of ‘29: international friendlies and triumph during historical transition in Spain
Andrew McFarland
Soccer and Society
Vol. 23, No. 8, p. 1130-1142, 2022

Medley-Rath, Stephanie

Figures and Charts and Tables, Oh My!: A Content Analysis of Textbook Data Visualizations
Medley-Rath, Gillespie, Novosel*, Combs*, and Fearnow*
(*undergraduates)
2023
The Teaching Sociology Playbook
Edited by Stephanie Medley-Rath & Gregory T. Kordsmeier
Sage, 2023
Includes chapters written or co-written by Medley-Rath: "Making your teaching public: Sharing, publishing, and selling your teaching innovations" and "Where do good teaching ideas come from?"
Designing core major courses: Methods
Stephanie Medley-Rath
In "Handbook of Teaching and Learning in Sociology," edited by Sergio A. Cabrera and Stephen A. Sweet
Edward Elgar, 2023
Finding our way out of global catastrophe - Presentation or blog assignment (resource)
Stephanie Medley-Rath
TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology
May 3, 2023
How do sociologists know what they know? An examination of sociology textbooks for evidence of sociological and scientific thinking
Stephanie Medley-Rath
Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World
Vol. 8, p. 237802312211387, 2022
Gaining confidence, experience, and knowledge as researchers among undergraduate sociology students
Stephanie Medley-Rath & Rebekah Morgan
Teaching Sociology
Vo. 50, No. 1, p. 28-38, 2022
'A family is two parents, their children, and the white picket fence': The impact of invisible intersections on how we talk about 'the family'
Stephanie Medley-Rath
In "Getting Real About Inequality: Intersections In Real Life (IRL)"
Sage Publications, 2022
Introductory Sociology Learning Outcomes
Stephanie Medley-Rath & Andrea Hunt
Center for Curriculum Redesign
2022
Public sociology syllabus
Stephanie Medley-Rath
TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology
2022

Oslawski-Lopez, Jamie

Examining Engagement, Note-Taking, and Multitasking in Podcast-Based Learning
Oslawski-Lopez, Jamie, and Gregory Kordsmeier. 2025. “Examining Engagement, Note-Taking, and Multitasking in Podcast-Based Learning.” Teaching Sociology. (Online First)
Who can refuse? Attitudes About the Fertility Decisions of Wives and Husbands
Jamie Oslawski-Lopez and Jaclyn A. Tabor
Journal of Family Issues
November 11, 2024
Measuring Families’ Outsourced Household Labor in Country-Context: Accounting for Country-Level Gender and Class-Based Inequality
Jamie Oslawski-Lopez
Midwest Social Sciences Journal
September 17, 2024
Listening to Podcasts for Class: Tips for Success
Gregory Kordsmeier and Jamie Oslawski-Lopez
Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology
February 29, 2024
Choose your own adventure: End-of-course project (Resource)
Jamie Oslawski-Lopez
TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology
August 12, 2023
Graduate Studies
Jamie Oslawski-Lopez, Jessica Cox, Lyston Louks & Rebekah Morgan
In "Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology", edited by George Ritzer
October 31, 2022

Pickens, Aaron

"Faculty Biennial." Campus Gallery, IU Kokomo, Kokomo, Indiana Aug. 21st - Sept. 19th, 2024
"2024 Young Artist At Work Alumni Exhibition" Porter Gallery at Toldeo School for the Arts, Toledo, OH, Jul. 9th - Jul. 27th, 2024
"Midwest Regional" - (Juried by Joey Quinones). Artlink, Fort Wayne, Indiana Jan. 4th - Feb. 4th, 2024
"125th Annual Exhibition" (Juried by Greg Hull and Ann Carter) Richmond Museum of Art, Richmond, IN. Nov. 11th, 2023 - Jan 6th, 2024
"2023 IPAPA Member Exhibition" Harrison Center, Indianapolis, IN Nov. 3rd - Dec 31. 2023
Richmond Art Museum Merit Award: 124th Annual Exhibition (Juried by Carl Samson) - Richmond Museum of Art, Richmond, IN, November 3 - January 7, 2023
"BIG little Art Show" (Juried) - Peninsula School of Art, Fish Creek, WI, November 4 - December 23, 2023
"Open Space: Art About the Land" (Juried by Walt Bistline) - Anderson Museum of Art, Anderson, IN, November 3, 2023 - January 7, 2024
"79th Wabash Valley Exhibition" (Juried by John Yau) - Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN, November 3 - January 7, 2024
"Growing Up Now" (Juried by Danielle Andress) - Peninsula School of Art, Fish Creek, WI, October 26 - November 17, 2023
"2023 Young Artist At Work Alumni Exhibition" - University of Toledo Center for Visual Arts, Toledo, OH, July 10 - August 3, 2023
"Split P" (Solo Exhibition) - Wolfe Gallery, Maumee Valley Country Day School, Toledo, OH, March 3 - May 1, 2023
"124th Annual Exhibition" (Juried by Carl Samson) - Richmond Museum of Art, Richmond, IN, November 3 - January 7, 2023
"2022 IPAPA Member Exhibition" - Harrison Center, Indianapolis, IN, November 4 - December 31, 2022
“Spotlight showcase” (Juried) - Arch Enemy Arts, Philadelphia, PA , March 4, 2021 – January 28, 2022
“Surreal Salon 14” (Juried by Carrie Ann Baade - Baton Rouge Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA January 4-27, 2022
“Strange Paradise: A Window into Surrealism” (Juried by Ann Hyland) - Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Solomons, MD, May 27 - September 18, 2022
“MIMIC” (Juried) - Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH May 26th – June 24th, 2022
“Art in the Acid Mine Drainage” (Invitational) - The Majestic Gallery, Nelsonville, OH, March 25 - June 19, 2022
“Split P” (Solo Exhibition) – Indiana University Kokomo, Kokomo, IN, August 31 - September 22, 2022

Shine, Beau

Student and Faculty Perceptions of the Impact of Masks on Student Learning and Communication in the Classroom
Shine, Brown, Felts, and Mitchell
Midwest Social Sciences Journal: Vol. 26: Iss. 1, Article 8.
2023
Scholar-practitioner partnerships in pursuit of EBDM: How to build a data dashboard with limited resources
Erin Lee Geiselman & Beau Shine
Journal of Community Justice
Vol. 32, No. 1, p. 5-19, 2022

Sposato, Peter

Vengeance and the Making of Masculinity in the Late Medieval Mediterranean World
Confluences Méditerranée
Forged in the shadow of Mars: chivalry and violence in late medieval Florence
Peter Sposato
Cornell University Press, 2022
(Book review) Conflict and Violence in Medieval Italy 568-1154
Peter Sposato
Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies
In press
(Book review) A Renaissance of Violence: Homicide in Early Modern Italy
Peter Sposato
Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, 2022

Steel, Gregory

Arlink Mid-West Regional, Artlink Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN
Light and Space Gallery, 14th Abstract Art Exhibition (Special Recognition), Online
The Kavanaugh Gallery, From the Earth, St. Charles, IL
Swope Museum, 79th Wabash Valley Exhibition, Terre Haute, IN
Museum of Greater Lafayette, Indiana Now Exhibition, Lafayette, IN
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild Art Center, Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit, Woodstock, NY
Campus public sculpture created with students: Victory Unchained

Weller, Niki

How COVID-19 Worsened Mental Health Problems of Incarcerated Youth
Theresa A. Ochoa, Yanúa Ovares-Fernández, Nicole Maki Weller, Claire de
Mezerville-Lopez, Emilia Guillén-Ulate & Berenice Pérez-Ramírez
In "Navigating Students' Mental Health in the Wake of Covid-19: Using Public Health Crises to Inform Research and Practice", edited by James M. Kauffman and Jeanmarie Badar
Taylor & Francis, 2023
Incarcerated girls with disabilities: A multinational perspective
Theresa A. Ochoa, Nicole Maki Weller & Berenice Pérez-Ramírez
Intervention in School and Clinic
In press, 2022
Trauma and abuse among incarcerated girls in the United States and Costa Rica
Nicole Maki Weller, Claire de Mezerville-Lopez, Berenice Pérez-Ramírez &
Theresa Ochoa
Intervention in School and Clinic
In press, 2022
Internalizing disabilities among incarcerated girls from Mexico and the United States
Berenice Pérez-Ramírez, Nicole Maki Weller & Theresa Ochoa
Intervention in School and Clinic
In press, 2022
Employment reentry preparation: Explicit recommendations for girls with disabilities
Theresa A. Ochoa, Nicole Maki Weller & Tyeisha T. Fordham
Intervention in School and Clinic
In press, 2022

White, Eva Roa

Ending the Curse of the New Playboy?: Bisi Adigun and Roddy Doyle’s American Path to Redemption.
New Hibernia Review.
28.2 (Summer 2024): 51-72
Because suffering is optional
Eva Roa White
Indiana English
Vol. 1, No. 1, p. 50-52, 2023
Interview with Bisi Adigun
Eva Roa White
Solas Nua
April 3, 2023

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