The Global Asian Studies Program congratulates its affiliated faculty, Mary Anne Mohanraj, on her promotion to Clinical Professor. Congratulations Mary Anne on this important milestone! Thank you for all the support you have…
Professor Nadine Naber of the Global Asian Studies and Gender & Women’s Studies, has been selected to join the latest group of Freedom Scholars, a distinction from the Marguerite Casey Foundation that recognizes…
Dis/Placements: A People’s History of Uptown Project (https://dis-placements.com) celebrated the inauguration of the Winthrop “Block Party” mural by artist Tia Etu. The mural is inspired by conversations with members of the Winthrop Family…
This archiving project documents the history of the 31-year student-led movement from 1991-2022 for Asian American Studies that paved the way for building Global Asian Studies (GLAS) and the Major at the University…
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.…
