Anna Guevarra and Ronak Kapadia Receives UIC 2020-2021 Teaching Recognition Award
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 the candidate’s statement, student feedback, peer reviews, course materials, mentoring of students, curriculum development, and implementation of impactful and innovative teaching approaches.
Anna is the Founding Director of the Global Asian Studies Program and a Co-PI of the UIC AANAPISI Initiative. She is also the Co-PI of the Social Justice and Human Rights Cluster and a member of the Diaspora Cluster at UIC. Professor Guevarra's scholarly, creative, and teaching interests focus on immigrant and transnational labor, the geopolitics of carework, critical diaspora studies, and community engagement as they relate to dynamics of race, gender, and empire.
Ronak is an Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and affiliated faculty in Art History, Global Asian Studies, and Museum & Exhibition Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His broader research and teaching fields include: critical ethnic studies; race radical and transnational feminisms; queer of color critique; Arab/Muslim/South Asian diasporas; national security and surveillance; critical prison and military studies; visual and performance studies; affect and new materialisms; radical social movements; and US Empire.