Jack K. Martin, Executive Director
(812) 855-7450
Jane D. McLeod, Director of Research
(812) 855-2405
1022 East Third Street; IUB
The Institute of Social Research at Indiana University was founded in 1963 by the then Chair of the Department of Sociology, Karl F. Schuessler. Over the last 40 years the Institute has emerged as a center of excellence for high-quality faculty research, an important venue for the training of graduate students in Sociology, and the home of several successful research centers and extramurally funded research projects (i.e., the Center for Survey Research, the Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research, the Center for Education and Society, the Sociological Research Practicum, and several NIMH and NIA RO1s). In addition, beginning in 2001, the Institute began offering a series of intensive summer workshops in qualitative and quantitative methods to bring advanced training in social science research methods to the Bloomington campus. In 2003, the Institute was renamed the Karl F. Schuessler Institute for Social Research, in honor of its founder.
The Schuessler Institute has recently expanded its mission by building on these successes to forge interdisciplinary alliances across the social sciences. The primary missions of the Institute now include:
1) facilitating the exchange of information and ideas within the Department of Sociology and across the social sciences at IUB;
2) coordinating the development of shared resources across the university;
3) providing support for the submission of proposals for extramural funds and the establishment of research grants; and
4) supporting the efforts of emerging and established scholars to obtain external funding.
