The diverse research centers and institutes housed within Indiana University Bloomington and the College of Arts and Sciences illustrate its unmatched breadth of research and creative activity.
From the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society and the Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities to the Schuessler Institute for Social Research and the Gill Center for Biomolecular Science, our campus is home to 100+ centers and institutes where researchers investigate new ideas, make important discoveries, and work to solve today’s pressing problems.
The Archives of African American Music and Culture house audio and video recordings, oral histories, photographs, musical and print manuscripts, and other materials related to African American musical idioms and cultural expressions, while the Black Film Center and Archive serves as a repository of films and related materials by and about African Americans. The Archives of Traditional Music is one of the largest university-based ethnographic sound archives in the United States, with more than 100,000 recordings in its collections.