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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/
Anna Guevarra and Gayatri Reddy received a COVID-19 and Racial Justice Community Scholar/Research Pilot Award for their project with Uptown’s Winthrop Family, “The Winthrop Family Storytellers: An Ode and Primer to Black Resilience in Chicago”; https://uihealth.uic.edu/covid19strikeforce/
Nadine is a professor in the Gender and Women's Studies Program and the Global Asian Studies Program, and holds an affiliation with the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
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.
Gayatri is an associate professor in the Gender and Women's Studies Program and the Global Asian Studies Program, and holds an affiliation with the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Chicago.