The Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina's Janet Colm Award for Transformative Leadership has named among its inaugural recipients Susan Levine, LAS associate professor of history and director of the Institute for the Humanities.
LAS Communication Professor and Department Head Zizi Papacharissi has been honored with the High Impact Scholar award from the University of Texas at Austins School of Journalism.
In his upcoming book, Kevin Schultz uses the friendship of a political odd couple, Norman Mailer and William F. Buckley Jr., as a lens through which to view the tumultuous 1960s. “Mailer was…
Dick Simpson, professor in the Department of Political Science and former Chicago alderman, frequently appears as a featured expert in news stories covering state and city government, politics and corruption.
Jay Shearers first published novel, Five Hundred Sirens, has been called "utterly engaging," a work that "will shake you even as it keeps you smiling." A lecturer in the English department, where he got his Ph.D. in 2011, Shearer teaches first-year composition, media and professional writing, and fiction and nonfiction writing workshops.
Crains Chicago Business interviewed Beth Richie, director of the UIC Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, about her appointment to a National Football League expert panel addressing issues of domestic violence and sexual assault.
In the latest episode of the nationally syndicated public radio program “BackStory with the American History Guys,” Maria de los Angeles Torres, UIC professor of Latin American and Latino studies and executive director…
The October issue of Today's Chicago Woman features an essay from Judith Kegan Gardiner, UIC professor emerita of English and gender and women's studies, on the future of relationships.