We, the core faculty of the Global Asian Studies Program at the University of Illinois Chicago, stand in solidarity with students representing over 105 campuses who have established encampments to denounce the ongoing…
Congratulations to Themal Ellawala for receiving the 2024-2025 UIC Institute for Humanities Resident Graduate Scholar Award for their dissertation project, “When Ephemera Bind: On Negative & Positive Space and Queer Relationality in Sri…
Themal Ellawala, PhD student and is currently teaching GLAS/GWS 263 this semester, just received milestone achievements. Themal published two articles in leading journals on feminism/gender studies. Ellawala, T. I. (accepted). “Revisiting Austerity: Queer…
Voting ends tomorrow for an important referendum on the ballot in Chicago called “Bring Chicago Home” that will address houselessness in the City. As part of their ongoing work on the Dis/Placements project,…
Nadine Naber is quoted and the Arab American report, Beyond Erasure and Profiling: Cultivating Strong and Vibrant Arab American Communities in Chicagoland she co-wrote is referenced in this New York Times Article about…
Clare Kim has been elected a fellow of the Diversity of Mathematical Research Cultures and Practices (DMRCP), which consists of a network of researchers within UNESCO’s International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences.…
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS! This 3-week research trip will allow undergraduate students to gain some understanding of environmental conservation and food sovereignty grassroots movements in South India. Through visits to a forest preserve (Gurukula…
Congratulations to affliated faculty member Laura Hostetler for the publication of her edited volume entitled, Reimagining the Globe and Cultural Exchange: The East Asian Legacies of Matteo Ricci’s World Map that is part…
Gayatri Reddy has published two pieces: An article in American Anthropologist, the flagship journal of the field, entitled “Our Blood is Becoming White”: Race, Religion, and Siddi Becoming in Hyderabad, India.” Published December…
Ronak Kapadia published “The Downward Redistribution of Breath: Abolitionist Visions of Healing Justice from Chicago” in Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas 8.3 ( 2024): 259-284. Abstract: A new generation of visionary…
