Starting in the early 1990s, UIC students lobbied for almost 20 years for a cultural center, academic program, and academic support to address the needs of Asian American students. These units and programs…
GLAS Program Director, Anna Guevarra, writes a powerful piece regarding the TEAACH Act and the history of struggles over ethnic studies in Illinois and around the country. It’s an inspirational and timely piece,…
Nadine Naber received a Humanities Without Walls Seed Grant for her project, “Amplify Mother Survivors” with MAMAS: Activating Movements for Abolition and Solidarity and the Campaign to Free Incarcerated Survivors of Police Torture; https://huminst.uic.edu/news-stories/2021-hww-seed-grant-recipients-announced/…
Ronak Kapadia has received a 2020 Surveillance Studies Network (SSN) Book Prize for his book, Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War. This award is given to work that makes…
Anna Guevarra and Ronak Kapadia are recipients of the UIC 2020-2021 Teaching Recognition Program Award. This is an annual award competition that recognizes the high quality of instruction, based on multiple variables including …
Congratulations to GLAS Minor Wasan Kumar, who reached the finalist stage for the Rhodes Scholarship. We are very proud of him! Read about Wasan Kumar’s complete UIC Today feature HERE.
November 19, 2020 Mary Anne was live on the Wisconsin public radio on the Larry Meiller Show from 11:45am – 12:30pm talking about her fabulous cookbook, A Feast of Serendib. Listen to the…
With an onslaught of censorship and red tagging of dissenting voices in the Philippines in the aftermath of the passage of the Anti-Terror Bill, Dr. Anna Guevarra, GLAS program director, together with a…
Position: Global Asian Studies Program “Bridge to the Faculty” postdoctoral fellowship in Critical Refugee Studies with a preferred focus on refugee displacements from Southeast Asia in an area of research expertise pertaining to…
