The Global Asian Studies Program at the University of Illinois Chicago stands in solidarity with educators, students, and community leaders nationwide in denouncing the escalating violence directed at Asian and Asian American communities…
Mary Anne Mohanraj is running for election in the District 200 Oak Park School Board! “My time serving on the library board is ending in April and I want to continue to serve…
Nadine Naber has penned an important OpEd on Ms. Magazine entitled: “Vaccines Aren’t Enough to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19 in Prisons.” Read here: https://msmagazine.com/2021/03/03/covid-coronavirus-vaccine-prisons-illinois-idoc/ Nadine is a professor in the Gender and…
Karen Su is a featured guest for the highly acclaimed “One on One with CAN and GSC” on March 11, 12:30-1pm; Check it out live on Facebook @UIC Campus Advocacy Network and @UICGSC.…
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/…
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…
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.
