Nadine published a recent OpEd on the importance of creating a US Census Middle East and North African (MENA) Category which would provide a more accurate and disaggregated picture of the diversity of…
Dr. Nadine Naber’s project, “Amplifying Mothers of Police Violence Survivors” has been funded by the Humanities Without Walls Grand Research Challenge. Congratulations! Dr. Naber is a professor in the Gender and Women’s Studies…
I’m delighted to share with all of you the exciting news that the B.A. in Global Asian Studies has been approved by the Illinois Board of Higher Education last December 2021. This is…
Dr. Mary Anne Mohanraj signed a two-book deal to Riverdale Avenue Press who will be publishing her nonfiction cancer log (title TBD) and her experimental fiction/poetry cancer book, Perennial, as a set, to…
Dr. Michael Jin has been awarded an IRRPP Faculty Fellowship Grant for AY22-23. The grant will support his project entitled “Voices of the Unredressed: Structural Legacies of Nuclear Violence and the Meaning of…
Congratulations to GLAS affiliated faculty, Dr. Gayatri Reddy, for the recognition of her teaching. The Global Asian Studies Program thanks you for the curricular work you have provided GLAS (and ASAM) over the…
Nadine Naber’s “The U. S. has a Global Problem Too” lays out her view of police violence in Chicago through a global lens. Read it HERE. Nadine Naber is professor of Gender and…
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.…
