Featured Scholar: Susan Hyatt, PhD
Invisible Indianapolis: Race, Heritage and Community Memory in the Circle City
Dr. Susan B. Hyatt has directed ethnographic research for a series of neighborhood-based studies on the eastside, near-Southside, and in the mid-north neighborhood of Mapleton-Fall Creek. The most prominent of these projects focused on the history of a multiethnic community on Indianapolis’ near southside that was largely erased in the 1970s by interstate highway construction.
Her current project, “Invisible Indianapolis,” undertaken jointly with Paul Mullins, will synthesize research that is currently scattered among several of Indianapolis’ neighborhoods to produce a single, coherent narrative of neighborhood connections and displacement. “Invisible Indianapolis” underscores the compelling stories of American life that remain unseen or misunderstood in our very midst; it is striving to develop public scholarship based on community interests; and it addresses how such histories can be reinvigorated to create new understandings of our past and shape a vision of our city’s collective future.
In 2010, the Indiana Campus Compact awarded Dr. Hyatt the Brian Hiltunen Award for the Outstanding Scholarship of Civic Engagement and in 2012 she received the Chancellor’s Faculty Award for Excellence in Civic Engagement. In 2016 she, along with her colleague Paul Mullins, were awarded the inaugural Charles R. Bantz Chancellor’s Community Fellowship for their project, “Invisible Indianapolis: Race, Heritage and Community Memory in the Circle City.”
Dr. Hyatt’s work to preserve the history of Indianapolis neighborhoods is another example of how IU Indianapolis faculty are TRANSLATING RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE.
Selected Publications in IU Indianapolis ScholarWorks
With several research works contributed to IU Indianapolis's free, open access repository, Dr. Hyatt has made translational research knowledge available to professionals, researchers, students, and communities around the world.
Stephen Godanis, Lian Thang and Susan Hyatt. (2012, April 13). NAPTOWN RISES: HAS A SPORTS STRATEGY REAWAKENED A SLEEPING CITY? Poster session presented at IU Indianapolis Research Day 2012, Indianapolis, Indiana. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/8126
Samantha Adamson, Oaksoon Callahan, Amanda Jolliffe, Susan Hyatt, and Drew Klacik. (2012, April 13). SUPER BOWL CITY: THE REAL FACES OF XLVI UNMASKED. Poster session presented at IU Indianapolis Research Day 2012, Indianapolis, Indiana. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/7462
Hyatt, S., Madariaga, M. C., Baurley, M., Dagon, M. J., Logan, R., Waxingmoon, A., & Plasterer, D. (2011). Walking the Walk in Collaborative Fieldwork: Responses to Menzies, Butler, and Their Students. Collaborative Anthropologies, 4(1), 243–251. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/8483
Roger Jarjoura, IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs and Susan Hyatt, IU School of Liberal Arts, Dept. of Anthropology. (2010, April 9). Transformative Learning for Our Students When They Go Behind Prison Walls. Poster session presented at IU Indianapolis Research Day 2010, Indianapolis, Indiana. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/11386
Susan Hyatt IU School of Liberal Arts, Daniel Branstrator, Margaret Baurley, Molly Dagon, and Stephanie Yarian, Anthropology Students, and Members of Community Heights Neighborhood Organization. (2010, April 9). Research Partnerships: Undertaking and Understanding Collaborative Ethnography in Indianapolis. Poster session presented at IU Indianapolis Research Day 2010, Indianapolis, Indiana. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/11375