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Three faculty honored as Carnegie Scholars as IU tops nation in program selections
March 12, 2001
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Two Indiana University associate professors from the Bloomington campus, Carolyn Calloway-Thomas in the Department of Communication and Culture and Dennis Rome in the Department of Afro-American Studies, have been named Carnegie Scholars for the coming year.
A third IU faculty member, Didier Bertrand from the Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures at IUPUI, also was among the 30 individuals selected nationwide for the Carnegie honor.
In the four-year history of the program, IU faculty have been selected for five Carnegie Scholar appointments, which is more than any other college or university in the United States. History professor David Pace was selected in 1999 and biology professor Craig Nelson received the honor last year.
The award is presented by the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning to faculty members from diverse fields throughout the United States. Those selected are expected to work together to invent and share new conceptual models for teaching.
Moya Andrews, vice chancellor for academic affairs and dean of the faculties at IU's Bloomington campus, said, "These recipients are among our best and brightest colleagues, and they will represent us well in the Carnegie program. We are exceptionally proud of their achievements and the number of Carnegie scholars from Indiana University."
Calloway-Thomas has research interests encompassing African-American communications and inter-cultural communications. She is co-author of a textbook on inter-cultural communications and a book on Martin Luther King Jr. She has been both a Fulbright scholar and a Ford postdoctoral fellow. She is past president of the Central States Communication Association and book review editor for The Howard Journal of Communication.
Calloway-Thomas serves on the educational policies board of the National Communication Association, from which she received the 1999 Robert J. Kibler Memorial Award for dedicated and distinguished service. She serves on the editorial board for the Quarterly Journal of Speech and Southern Communication Journal.
She holds a B.S. degree and Distinguished Alumni Award from Grambling State University, an M.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin and a Ph.D. degree from Indiana University.
Rome's research interests in sociology include criminology, race and minority relations, and research methods. He has extensive published research in these fields over the past 15 years and has received numerous grants and awards for his professional activities.
Rome is a past Fulbright scholar who has received several awards from IU for teaching excellence. He also has held numerous appointments professionally with the American Sociological Association and served on several IU committees pertaining to affirmative action and student affairs. Rome holds a B.A. degree from Bradley University, an M.A. degree from Howard University and a Ph.D. degree from Washington State University.
Carnegie Scholars serve a one-year term, during which they investigate and document work on issues in their teaching and learning fields. While Carnegie Scholars work primarily in their own academic settings, they spend two 10-day summer sessions together and additional time during the academic year. They also will work with Carnegie Scholars from the previous three years.
The Carnegie Scholars are sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts, one of the nation's largest private philanthropies, which has committed $6 million to a five-year effort with the Carnegie Foundation.
"Our purpose is to support work that will foster significant, long-lasting learning for all students, enhance the practice and profession of teaching, and bring to teaching the recognition and reward afforded to other forms of scholarship," said Pat Hutchings, director of the Carnegie higher education program.
More information on the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning is available at its Web site at http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/CASTL/index.htm
(George Vlahakis, 812-855-0846, gvlahaki@indiana.edu)