Indiana Law's New Faces, Appointments
Professor Hannah Buxbaum, Louis F. Neizer Faculty Fellow, is the new associate dean for research. She follows
Professor Ken Dau-Schmidt, who had served in the position since 2005. The deanship was created
to provide coordination for the planning of academic conferences, faculty workshops, and speakers; to support
faculty members on scholarship issues and scholarship plans; and to inform the dean and executive associate
dean for academic affairs about matters relating to faculty scholarship. Buxbaum will be responsible for
creating forums for intellectual exchange, including students in the intellectual community, and facilitating
interdisciplinary research and centers. The associate dean for research serves a two-year term.
Archana Sridhar will support Buxbaum as assistant dean for research and special projects. In that capacity, she will be working on grants to support faculty research,
centers, and other initiatives. Sridhar is a Harvard Law School graduate who has just returned from a U.S. Student Fulbright Fellowship
in Guatemala. Prior to her Fulbright, Archana was senior director of corporate and foundation relations for a
nonprofit, and before that an associate in tax with Sullivan & Worcester in Boston.
Caroline Dowd-Higgins joined the School as a director of the Career Services Office. She previously worked at the Career Development Center at the College, where she was associate director for employer development and faculty relations. She is a graduate of Indiana's Jacobs School of Music, with both bachelor's and master's degrees in voice.
Catherine Matthews, JD'06, is the new director of Student Services. She succeeds Susan Kerns, JD'01, in the position. Matthews previously worked as a program consultant for the Law School's Office of Student Affairs and as a practicing attorney for Indiana University's Office of General Counsel.
Professor Robert Parrish joins the Indiana Law faculty teaching in the first-year Legal Research and Writing
Program. He earned his JD in 2004 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he served as
articles editor for the North Carolina Law Review.
From 2004–06, Parrish worked as a law clerk for Indiana Supreme Court Justice Frank Sullivan Jr. He then was an associate attorney at Bose McKinney & Evans LLP, in Indianapolis from 2006–07. His work as a practitioner was concerned primarily with commercial litigation issues. In addition to his legal work, he has experience as an oral historian and archivist with the Center for Documentary Studies' Behind the Veil project.