A story from the Center for Illinois Politics about voter turnout during midterm elections includes commentary from Chris Mooney, UIC Professor Emeritus of Political Science, citing former President Trump’s polarizing presence causing abnormally…
Alana Gunn, UIC Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law and Justice, is interviewed during WTTW-TV’s “Latino Voices” in a segment on the challenges women face after incarceration, citing trauma violence, and systemic injustices affecting…
Dick Simpson, UIC professor emeritus of political science, joined “On the Block,” a show from WCIU-TV and Block Club Chicago, to talk about aldermanic turnover in Chicago’s City Council. Read more here: https://bit.ly/3SUNr8j
Professor of Anthropology Tarini Bedi’s book, 𝘔𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘪 𝘛𝘢𝘹𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯: 𝘈𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘈𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘢, won a 2022 Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing from The Society for Humanistic Anthropology! The Society for Humanistic Anthropology…
Anthropology Professor Tarini Bedi and graduate students Aditi Aggarwal, Jozie Chaet, and Lakshita Malik’s collaborative essay, “Feminist pedagogy through the small fieldnote,” was featured in the scholarly journal Feminist Anthropology! This project is…
History Professor Laura Hostetler’s newest book, 𝘘𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘐𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘶𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘴, translates ethnographic texts and hand-painted scrolls in order to contextualize imperial tributary relationships within the Qing Dynasty. Read more here: https://bit.ly/hostetler-qing-cartography…
Assistant Professor of Psychology Michael Pasek’s research was published in the journal, Scientific Reports. His team’s paper, “Misperceptions about out-partisans’ democratic values may erode democracy,” assesses that bipartisanship requires not only valuing democratic…
In recognizing UIC’s role as a Research1 level institution, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $4M to home the world’s first analytical, aberration-corrected and monochromated transmission electron microscope with a magnetic field-free…
Professor Emeritus of Political Science Dick Simpson was featured in a Bloomberg article about the impact of Chicago’s decades-long segregation policies on the disparities south and west side communities experience today. Chicago’s long…
Anthropology Professor Tarini Bedi and graduate student Aditi Aggarwal’s ethnography paper, “ Dhandha, Accumulation and the Making of Valuable Livelihoods in Contemporary Mumbai,” was featured in the Journal of South Asian Studies! Their…
