Current Sponsors
Sponsors are chosen by individual students to work with them on designing and carrying out their IMP majors.
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Leslie Abshier
O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs
leleonar at indiana.edu
Research and/or teaching interests: Nonprofit management and administration.
David Audretsch
O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs
daudrets at indiana.edu
Research and/or teaching interests: Teaches and engages in research focusing on the links between entrepreneurship, government policy, innovation, economic development and global competitiveness.
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Charles Beeker
School of Public Health > Kinesiology; Center for Underwater Science
cbeeker at indiana.edu
Research and/or teaching interests: Marine Protected Area research and interpretation of underwater cultural and associated biological resources, for establishment of shipwrecks as Living Museums in the Sea.
Purnima Bose
Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies > International Studies; English
pbose at indiana.edu
Research and/or teaching interests: British colonialism, nationalist movements, and neo-liberalism, with regional interests in Afghanistan, India, Ireland, and Pakistan.
Candy Brown
Religious Studies
browncg at indiana.edu
Research and/or teaching interests: Evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity, complementary and alternative medicine, yoga and mindfulness meditation, and other spiritual healing practices.p>
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Heather Eastman-Mueller
School of Public Health > Applied Health Science
heastman at indiana.edu
Research and/or teaching interests: Sexual and reproductive health; Assistant Director of Sexual and Reproductive Health at the IU Health Center.
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Michael Grossberg
History
grossber at indiana.edu
Research and/or teaching interests: American legal and constitutional history, history of childhood, social policy history.
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Trish Hausmann
Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance
pjhausma at indiana.edu
Research and/or teaching interests: House management and stage management, theme park entertainment management, cruise ship entertainment management.
Norbert Herber
The Media School > Media Arts and Production
nherber at indiana.edu
Research and/or teaching interests: Music and interaction for digital art, entertainment, and communications.
Monika Herzig
O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs > Arts Management
mherzig at indiana.edu
Research and/or teaching interests: Jazz Pianist/ Recording Artist, Jazz History and Education, Entrepreneurship and Creativity
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Claudia Johnson
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
claudia at indiana.edu
Research and/or teaching interests: Geobiology, Caribbean geology, reef ecosystems, evolutionary processes in the paleotropics.
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Olga Kalentzidou
Geography
okalentz at indiana.edu
Research and/or teaching interests: Food Memory; Cooking/Cookbooks; Migration/Identity;mExperiential Learning/Community Engagement; Teaching Pedagogy/Food Pedagogy
Steven Krahnke
The Media School > Media Arts and Production
skrahnke at indiana.edu
Research and/or teaching interests: Documentary film development and production; stage and production design; critical analysis; media business and management; live concert production.
James Krause
The Media School > Media Arts and Production
jarkraus at indiana.edu
Research and/or teaching interests: Media production, visual design, technology, documentary production, organizational development, photography, persuasion, music composition.
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Jennifer Lale
Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance
jlale at iu.edu
Research and/or teaching interests: Theater history, literature, criticism, theory; Puppeteering.
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Joshua Malitsky
The Media School > Cinema and Media Studies
jmalitsk at indiana.edu
Research and/or teaching interests: Documentary; film and nation-building; Soviet Cinema.
Bruce Martin
Medical Sciences Program
martin1 at indiana.edu
Research and/or teaching interests: Medical physiology and its clinical applications, basic physiology as it relates to disease, and the science of psychoactive drugs.
Lindsey Mazurek
Classical Studies
linmazur at indiana.edu
Research and/or teaching interests: Roman sculpture; provinces; ancient religion; Roman imperialism; race and ethnicity in antiquity.
William McCoskey
Criminal Justice
wlmccosk at indiana.edu
Research and/or teaching interests: Prosecution of organized crime, drug enforcement task force cases.
Rasul Mowatt
American Studies
ramowatt at iu.edu
Research and/or teaching interests: Racial identity; social inequity (diversity education); leadership (transformational leadership theory) and management best practices (team management & team-based learning); violence and deviancy; governmentality and policy analysis; participatory research; critical historical analysis; media and narrative analysis; use of visual materials and visual methodology; community development (service-learning), and active learning
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Solimar Otero
Folklore and Ethnomusicology
solioter at iu.edu
Research and/or teaching interests: Gender, sexuality, and race in vernacular cultural expressions in Latinx, Afrolatinx, and African Diaspora contexts.
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Melody Pope
Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology
melpope at iu.edu
Research and/or teaching interests: Cultural resource and heritage management, archaeological curation, collections work, material culture.
Anne Pyburn
Anthropology
apyburn at indiana.edu
Research and/or teaching interests: Archaeology; settlement patterns; Maya, gender, ethics; archaeology and social context.
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Stanley Ritchie
Jacobs School of Music > Violin, Historical Performance
sritchie at indiana.edu
Research and/or teaching interests: Early music.
Bret Rothstein
Art History
brothste at indiana.edu
Research and/or teaching interests: Visual and material cultures of play; enigmatology; early modern jokes and games.
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April Sievert
Anthropology
asievert at indiana.edu
Research and/or teaching interests: North American archaeology, repatriation, heritage and museum studies.
Andrea Siqueira
Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies > International Studies
asigueir at indiana.edu
Research and/or teaching interests: Global health, food studies, rural development, gender and human rights, with a regional focus in Latin America, particularly Brazil.
Richard Swope
The Media School > Media Arts and Production
swoper at indiana.edu
Research and/or teaching interests: Lighting, game, art, texture, modeling, video.
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Peter Todd
Cognitive Science Program, Psychological and Brain Sciences
pmtodd at indiana.edu
Research and/or teaching interests: Decision making, evolution of behavior, cognition of consumption.
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Irene Vlachos-Weber
Psychological and Brain Sciences
vlachosi at indiana.edu
Research and/or teaching interests: Alternative therapeutic approaches.
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John A. Walsh
Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering > Information and Library Science; English
jawalsh at indiana.edu
Research and/or teaching interests: Digital and computational literary studies, cultural heritage informatics, textual studies and bibliography, text technologies, book history, 19th-Century British literature, poetry, and poetics, comic books.
Michael Wasserman
Anthropology
mdwasser at iu.edu
Research and/or teaching interests: Primate ecology and evolution; environmental endocrinology; conservation biology and sustainability; evolutionary medicine and EcoHealth; nutritional anthropology.
Carl Weinberg
History
crweinbe at indiana.edu
Research and/or teaching interests: Modern US social movements, culture wars, and politics.
Caleb Weintraub
Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design > Painting
chweintr at indiana.edu
Research and/or teaching interests: Painting.
Nick Williams
English
nimwilli at indiana.edu
Research and/or teaching interests: British Romanticism (particularly William Blake and the Wollstonecraft-Godwin-Shelley circle), with further interests in utopian thought and literature and the Bible as literature.
Brian Wood
Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering
bwwood at iu.edu
Research and/or teaching interests: Virtual reality.
Cynthia Wu
English
cynwu at iu.edu
Research and/or teaching interests: Gender studies, Asian American studies, racialized masculinity. Director of Race, Migration, and Indigeneity at IU.
