Two projects by GLAS faculty were funded by the UIC Humanities Innovation Grant. The award is designed to fund work in the humanities that explores new theories, archives, methodologies, interdisciplinary connections, applications, and…
Twenty years to the month after the US Congress passed the Patriot Act, Arab Americans continue to feel its devastating impact. The Patriot Act, and its successor, the USA Freedom Act, are backronyms…
Gayatri Reddy and Anna Guevarra’s “Winthrop Family and Black Resilience on the North Side of Chicago” examines the impact of racial segregation in Chicago’s north side and the resilience of the Winthrop Family.…
Anna Guevarra, UIC associate professor and director of global Asian studies, addresses development and gentrification issues in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood during a segment on WTTW-TV’s “Chicago Tonight.” Guevarra’s project with Gayatri Reddy, UIC…
For the fourth time since 2010, the University of Illinois Chicago has received the Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Minority-Serving Institutions program. The…
Dr. Naomi Paik, together with graduate students at UIUC, with coauthored a piece that has been published in the Journal of Academic Freedom entitled “Toward Abolitionist Unionism: Resisting Pandemics, Police, and Academic Austerity…
Anna Guevarra and Gayatri Reddy Co-authors OpEd on the ongoing gentrification and housing struggle in Uptown. The article is based on their work done with the “Stop Luxury Developments @Weiss Hospital Campaign.” This…
Here is a piece that Nadine Naber wrote on the Chicago Reporter in response to 9/11. It also also references the forthcoming UIC IRRPP’s Arab American Chicagoland Report of which Nadine serves as…
GLAS is pleased to announce the release of the Community Forces podcast featuring UIC student interns working with different local Asian American community organizations. We also hear from the organizational leaders and community…
Nadine Naber wrote OpEDs in the Chicago Reporter. One of the OpEds provides a much needed feminist lens for understanding what is transpiring in Afghanistan as a problem of the US empire .…
