Prior to an interview with Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot, MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show” highlights findings (and images) from a 2018 UIC political science department report on corruption in Chicago. New Chicago mayor with law and order background…
The Chicago Tribune quotes Barbara Risman, UIC professor of sociology and LAS distinguished professor, in a story about a woman’s letter to the editor, published by the University of Notre Dame student newspaper, that criticizes…
Maria de los Angeles Torres, UIC professor of Latin American and Latino studies, is interviewed in a WBEZ-FM story that examines what it means to be “progressive” and “liberal” in Chicago and how it might…
Political Science Professor Dick Simpson was quoted in an Associated Press article on Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s handling of the R. Kelly and Jussie Smollett cases.
In a column published by The Nation, Barbara Ransby, UIC professor of African American studies, gender and women’s studies, and history; LAS distinguished professor; and director of the Social Justice Initiative at UIC,…
Elizabeth Todd-Breland, UIC assistant professor of history, has been named the recipient of the American Educational Research Association’s 2019 Outstanding Book Award in recognition of her book “A Political Education: Black Politics and…
Steve Jones, UIC distinguished professor of communication, was interviewed in an Associated Press story about the recent Facebook outages. Jones discusses how the fallout from such service disruptions is influenced by its timing.…
Research from UIC’s Rachel Gordon, professor of sociology, fellow of the Institute for Health Research and Policy, and senior scholar of the Institute of Government and Public Affairs, is featured in the Chicago Tribune.…
Judges have selected the five finalists for the 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, America’s largest peer-juried prize for fiction. The finalists are: Blanche McCrary Boyd for Tomb of the Unknown Racist (Counterpoint), Richard…