Jamsheed Choksy has published a series of articles on World Politics Review on Iran and Pakistan. Choksy is professor of Central Eurasian, Indian, Iranian, Islamic, International, and Religious studies and former director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program at Indiana University. He also is a member of the National Council on the Humanities at the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities. He is an authority on Iran, the Indian subcontinent, Zoroastrianism, and Islam. He was recently elected as a Fellow of the American Numismatic Society.

 William R. Newman’s proposal “The Chymistry of Isaac Newton: A Rigorous Analysis of the Language of Alchemy” was awarded $ 523,359.00 by the National Science Foundation.  The grant will allow Newman and Wallace Hooper to use the Chymistry of Isaac Newton text-corpus as a platform for developing computational techniques involving data mining and textual analysis over a period of three years." 

Sociology Professor Ho-fung Hung recently received a great deal of media attention as a result of his New Left Review article on US-China political economy that came out in early November. The article has been featured in several US and international news outlets: 

• Suzi Weissman’s Beneath the Surface show at KPFK (Pacifica Radio) in LA on Nov 20, talking about Obama’s China trip and the NLR article. (http://suziweissman.com/).
• The article was featured in the business page of South China Morning Post on Dec 1.

History Professor Amrita Chakrabarti Myers was awarded the 2009 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Prize for Best Article on African American Women’s History by the Association of Black Women Historians for “The Bettingall-Tunno Family and the Free Black Women of Antebellum Charleston: A Freedom Both Contingent and Constrained,” which appeared earlier this year in the peer-reviewed anthology, South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times, Marjorie Spruill et al., eds., (University of Georgia Press).

Laura L. Scheiber (Anthropology), Claudia Johnson, Erika Elswick, and P. David Polly (all Geological Sciences) were awarded a three-year National Science Foundation Senior Research Grant in the Biological Research Collections Program for $475,302: “Infrastructure Upgrade, Curation, and Data basing of Indiana University Collections” for upgrade and improvement to the zooarchaeology and paleontology collections.  She has also been selected as the recipient of the Regional Forester Honor Award as the Recreation/Heritage partner of the year for the Rocky Mountain Region of the United States Forest Service.

Barbara Klinger, professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of Communication and Culture, received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the School of Film in the College of Fine Arts at Ohio University.

Lisa Thomassen, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, gave a presentation on Media and Violence for parents of children in Beechgrove Montessori School.

Feisal Istrabadi

Nazif Shahrani

Abdulkader Sinno

Feisal Istrabadi, Nazif Shahrani, and Abdulkader Sinno hosted an international conference in November titled “State Building in Afghanistan and Iraq”.  The conference was funded by a grant from the McCormick Foundation and supported by the Indiana Democracy Consortium.

Jane Rogan

James Madison

Jane Rogan and Jim Madison from the Liberal Arts and Management Program recently participated in a conference at the Stern School of Business at New York University on the relationships between a business education and a liberal arts education. The conference was part of a long-term Carnegie Foundation research project in which LAMP serves as one of the case studies.

Sumit Ganguly, director of the Indiana University India Studies Program, was a participant in a recent forum, "Mumbai Revisited," on the Immanent Frame blog. The forum can be found here.