LAS professor and University Scholar Anna Guevarra connects oral histories, art, and student collaboration to preserve community narratives and advance public research.
Congratulations to historian Jonathan Connolly 🎉 His book, “Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation,” has been awarded the Stansky Book Prize by the North American Conference on…
Did you know UIC secured $490 million in research funding in FY 2025? This milestone reflects the incredible work happening across all UIC colleges—driving progress in every field, from scientific breakthroughs to social…
Germany’s national newspaper, @DieZeit, has featured Anna Kornbluh’s research of English in a detailed profile. The article is based on a series of in-depth interviews conducted this fall. Read the full piece (in…
As a first-generation student and December Banner Carrier, Kayla W. channels her purpose into mentorship, advocacy, and intersectional learning at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Congratulations to Karen Underhill, of Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies, who has been awarded the Modern Language Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures for her book…
Margo Arruda, English Instructor and Ph.D. candidate at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, explores why our fears about AI might be misplaced—and why the humanities need to be a part of the conversation.
Congratulations to Ada Marys Lorenzana for being selected by Imagining America (IA) as a 2025–2026 Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) Fellow! This honor celebrates graduate students who champion publicly engaged scholarship and creative practice.…
Emphasizing the value of 'lived knowledge' in local and global communities, award-winning interdisciplinary researcher Dr. Nadine Naber provides mentorship, 'radical mothering,' and guidance to the next generation of scholars at LAS.
Congratulations to Professor Karen Underhill, whose groundbreaking book Bruno Schulz and Galician Jewish Modernity (Indiana University Press, 2024) has been awarded the Kulczycki Book Prize in Polish Studies by the Association for Slavic,…
