Michelle Poole (MA, University of Toledo) is a new faculty member in the Sociology department. She has significant experience working with the disadvantaged in communities, from housing assistance for the homeless to rehabilitation programs from young offenders. She has a variety of interests that she cares passionately about, and she looks forward to incorporating those […]
Heather McBride Scheurer is a Ph.D. candidate in public history at Middle Tennessee State University with a research agenda focused on wartime collections and museum interpretation. She has presented at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association and led a class in the creation of a board game on Gilded Age New York City. […]
Prof. Shiau-Yun Chen received her Ph.D. from Cornell in 2019 and recently published “Jealous and Violent: Constraining and Celebrating Wifely Jealousy in Mid-to-late Ming China” in Ming Studies (volume 79, 2019). Her focus is inter-relationships of law, culture, family authority and family violence in Ming China, with a special focus on wives and concubines. […]
One of the best ways to find out a university’s reputation is to ask the faculty that chose to invest their time and careers here. Dr. Ellen Whitehead, a recent PhD graduate from Rice University, is a new faculty member in Ball State’s Sociology department. She said, “I really appreciated the emphasis on quality teaching […]
The faculty and students in the Sociology Department are world-class researchers and scholars. We love to share and celebrate their accomplishments. Dr. Mellisa Holtzman, Professor of Sociology and Graduate Program Director Sociology alumni Amber Urban, ’20, and Dr. Mellisa Holtzman published, “Menstruation, Menstrual Stigma, and Twitter,” in Sociological Focus. This work is also the basis upon […]
It’s time to celebrate the Good News of the Modern Languages and Classics Department at Ball State in 2022-2023! Faculty Stephen Hessel was elected to the Executive Council of the Cervantes Society of America for a 3-year term (2023-2025). Handling the Truth: A Debates Companion to What Would Cervantes Do?, co-edited by Stephen Hessel and […]
Let’s give it up for Anthropology and their good news for 2022-2023! Faculty Dr. Caity Placek was named Director of Social Science Research for SURCI and ACDC with the College of Health, and published two articles featuring her research on drug use and eating behavior: Placek, C. D., Budzielek, E., White, L., & Williams, D. […]
It’s time to celebrate the Philosophy and Religious Studies Good News! Faculty Drawing on the award-winning Virginia Ball Center Seminar, “Muslims in Muncie,” Dr. Elizabeth N. Agnew’s article “On (Not) ‘Humanizing’ Muslims: Challenge and Opportunity in an Oral History Project with American Muslims” has been published in the ORAL HISTORY REVIEW, the leading journal in […]
As the Fall 2022 semester comes to a close, it is time to celebrate the good news of our faculty publications, grants, awards, and conferences. Congratulations to all. Natural and Computational Sciences Inside Indiana Business featured research from the environmental science program about the invasion superhighways through which aquatic species spread across the United States. […]
The “November Witch” refers to strong winds that are known to terrorize the Great Lakes in the autumn months. But what happens when a November storm affects the eastern United States? In November of 1950, a superstorm hit the United States in dramatic fashion. Dr. David Call of the Geography and Meteorology Department researched this […]