Roderick Ferguson, professor of African American Studies and Gender and Womens Studies, and Jane Rhodes, professor and head of the African American Studies Department, were recently interviewed on FOX 32s 9 PM newscast on September 16, 2015.
Professor Roger Weissberg, who is UIC and LAS Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Education and Novo Foundation Endowed Chair in Social and Emotional Learning, was quoted in a July 2015 article in The…
Colorlines.com features a column by Barbara Ransby, UIC professor of African American studies, gender and women’s studies and history and director of the Social Justice Initiative, on issues surrounding leadership of the current…
Dr. Beth Richie is the 2015 recipient of Dr. Natalie A. Stephens Visionary Award presented by Rape Victim Advocates (RVA). For more information from the RVA regarding Prof. Richie’s award and the event honoring…
Poet Christina Pugh, ??UIC LAS professor of English, has been awarded the prestigious 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship in creative arts. As a Guggenheim fellow during the 2015-16 academic year, Pugh will work on a book-in-progress titled Stardust Media, a collection of reflective poems that follow a poetic speaker through encounters with various technologies both ancient and contemporary.
Javier Villa-Flores, UIC LAS associate professor of Latin American and Latino studies and history, has been named a fellow of the National Humanities Center for the 2015-16 academic year.
The Answer Sheet, a Washington Post blog, published a column by Gerald Graff, UIC professor of English and education, that responds to education historian and activist Diane Ravitch, who spoke to the Modern Language Association this month about the past, present and future of the Common Core State Standards. Also, a Chronicle of Higher Education column on graduate course offerings in humanities departments cites comments by Gerald Graff, which were delivered during his 2008 term as president of the Modern Language Association.
WFRV-TV Channel 5, the FOX affiliate in Green Bay, Wisc., reported on a presentation by Beth Richie, Director of the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy at UIC, who discussed the…
Please join the ASAM department as we celebrate the accomplishments of our faculty! LAURA FUGIKAWA: Fugikawa, Laura Sachiko. (2015 March). Shifting the Gaze: Gender and Resilience in the Exiles, American Quarterly, 67(1): 1-24 ANNA…
LAS is pleased to announce that Maria Hinojosa award-winning news anchor and reporter will be the Colleges 2015 commencement speaker. In addition, Hinojosa will also receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters. The ceremony will be held at the UIC Pavilion at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, May 10.