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USI campus to reopen, classes resume, January 28

Change is never easy, and we know this is a challenging time as you navigate recent announcements affecting programs and operations at Oakland City University. We want you to know that your educational journey doesn’t have to pause.

At the University of Southern Indiana, we are fully committed to helping you transition seamlessly so you can stay on track with your education journey. We’ve designed this dedicated page specifically for you to explore our programs, access resources, learn about credit transfers and continue your education with minimal interruption.

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Stephanie Young

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Dr. Stephanie L. Young is an Associate Professor in Communication Studies and Director of the Basic Course at USI. Her research examines the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality in television, film and popular culture. Additionally, her autoethnographic works focus on the intersection of bisexuality and biracialism, specifically mixed raced Asian American identities. She has published in several scholarly journals including the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, QED: Journal of GLBTQ Worldmaking, Women's Studies in Communication and Departures in Critical Qualitative Research. She is the co-author of the book Pursuing Popular Culture: Methods for Researching the Everyday (2016) and the co-editor of Queer(ing) Communication Studies: Disruptions, Discussions, and Pathways (in press). She currently is working on an autoethnographic book project that explores Korean American mother-daughter relationships and the ways in hybrid identities are relationally constructed and geographically placed.