Barbara Dennis was honored with the 2020 Inaugural Award for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the School of Education, Indiana University. 

Lucinda Carpsecken's edited text Love in the Time of Ethnography: Essays on Connection as a Focus and Basis for Research earned Honorable Mention for AERA's Qualitative Research SIG Book of the Year (2019). 

Suparna Bose was awarded the prestigious Won Joon Yoon Scholarship from the Office of the Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Multicultural Affairs at Indiana University (2019).

Dr. Pengfei Zhao's Dissertation Changing Fate: The Cultural Revolution’s Rural Youth in Transition to Post-Mao China earned 2 international dissertation awards: The International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry Dissertation Award (2019) and the Dissertation Award of the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology (2017).

Pooja Saxena has accepted a position as Assistant Professor at Cottey College, a private women's liberal arts college in Missouri, founded by Virginia Stockard in 1884. Congratulations to Cottey College - you hired one of our wonderful scholars.

We are excited to share two new books published by FRC members: Barbara Dennis's "Walking with Strangers: Critical Ethnography and Educational Promise" and Pengfei Zhao, Karen Ross, Peiwei Li, and Barbara Dennis's "Making Sense of Social Research Methodology."