Candy Gunther Brown is a 2008 recipient of

the Outstanding Junior Faculty Award

News Release Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Six honored with IU Bloomington Outstanding Junior Faculty Award

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March 25, 2008

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Recipients of the Outstanding Junior Faculty Award at Indiana University Bloomington this year are Candy Gunther Brown in the Department of Religious Studies, Tony H. Grubesic in Department of Geography, Scott Michaels in the Department of Biology, Ethan Michelson in the Departments of Sociology and East Asian Languages and Cultures, Sima Setayeshgar in the Department of Physics, and Chen Yu in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.

The award, presented annually by the Office of the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculties, as well as the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, enables faculty to enhance their research and recognizes junior faculty members who have devoted considerable time to the teaching, research and service missions of IU. Each of the recipients has received $14,500 to support his or her research and creative activity.

Brown joined IU in 2006 after one year as an assistant professor of history at Vanderbilt and five years as an assistant professor in American studies at St. Louis University. She received her doctorate in the history of American civilization from Harvard University in 2000. Her book, The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880 (2004), is a cultural history of evangelical print culture. Brown's current book project, Miracle Cures? Divine Healing and Deliverance in America, traces the development of Pentecostal and charismatic healing practices in the U.S., emphasizing links between American practices and patterns of globalization. For more information on Brown, visit http://www.indiana.edu/~relstud/faculty/GuntherBrown.shtml.

Award Information

Monetary support for this award is provided through the combination of three different grants totaling approximately $14,500: a summer faculty fellowship of up to $8,000; a faculty grant-in-aid of research in the amount of $2,500 for the academic year; and a $4,000 grant-in-aid or released-time award.

The awards are designed to assist untenured, tenure-track faculty to enhance their research programs prior to tenure. Awards are given to junior faculty members who show promise of achieving great distinction as scholars or artists.

Candidates should have been at Indiana University for at least one academic year and demonstrated commitment to all three areas of teaching, research and service, and show evidence of this in the materials submitted.

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