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Featured Scholarship
Dr. Denise Lynn is a Professor of History at the University of Southern Indiana. She is also the Interim Chair of the History Department and the Director of Gender and Sexuality Studies and Africana Studies. Her research focuses on women in the American Community Party. Dr. Lynn is the author of Where is Juliet Stuart Poyntz? Gender, Spycraft, and Anti-Stalinism in the Early Cold War from the University of Massachusetts Press and Claudia Jones: Visions of a Socialist America from Polity Press. More Here...
Featured Member
Dr. Ruth Savidge Turpin teaches history courses at Indiana University Northwest and has lived through important historical events in her life. More Here...
President's Message
My name is Melissa Stacer, and I am a Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Southern Indiana. More Here...
Midwest Social Sciences Journal (MSSJ, previously known as the JIASS, is a blind peer- review Diamond Open Access Journal of the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences. We proudly published our 27th volume in September 2024. Full access to the 27th volume is available here: https://scholar.valpo.edu/mssj/vol27/iss1/.
The Journal is accepting papers on a continuous basis and currently inviting papers for its 28th volume. All accepted papers are issued Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) soon after the acceptance of their work. Learn about the submission policies at https://scholar.valpo.edu/mssj/. You can read the most recent volume of Midwest Social Sciences Journal.
Invitation to Submit to Endnotes
Greetings from the Indiana Academy of Social Sciences! We are excited about the year 2024 and the upcoming 95th Annual Meeting of the Indiana Academy of Social Science to be held in Evansville, Indiana on the campus of the University of Southern Indiana. This year, we want to hear from you, our members. Tell us what you’ve been up to, academic or otherwise. Do you want to share valuable information? Have you published an article, taken a trip, or visited a museum? We want to know. We’re interested in reporting on all the academic achievements and cool endeavors of our members, so we are inviting you to submit a brief academic blurb or a short article to our newsletter Endnotes. Contributions can be short commentaries on contemporary issues, reviews, community news, personal experiences, academic achievements/publications or any other helpful information related to the social sciences and academia. When submitting please be sure to include:
Your name
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Text (Between 150 – 300 words without endnotes)
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Email submissions to executive.secretary@iass.org. This year Endnotes is moving to an online format that can be updated throughout the year instead of the annual newsletter. This new design will allow us to connect more regularly with one another, so remember to look out for new articles and features. Hope to hear from you soon!