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 .…
On July 7, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed HB 0376 — the Teaching Equitable Asian American History Act (TEAACH Act) into law, making Illinois the first state in the nation to mandate the…
While movements like “Stop Asian Hate” can galvanize much-needed attention to the racialized violence Asian American communities face, we must recognize the ways that this victimhood is often twinned in the U.S. imagination…
A Block Club Chicago article about a plan to build an apartment building on a Weiss Hospital parking lot and Uptown community opposition to the project cites the UIC-based project “Dis/Placements: A People’s…
