GWS Professor Roderick Ferguson was interviewed by Truthout.org on his book One-Dimensional Queer, in a Q&A titled “The LGBTQ Movement Needs to Revisit Its Radical Past to Thrive.”
Barbara Ransby, UIC Professor of GWS, AAST, and History was highlighted in both the Chicago Crusader and Chicago Citizen newspapers as a symposium participant for celebrating the 100th birthday of Timuel Black.
Professor Barbara Ransby received the 2018 Angela Y. Davis Award from the American Studies Association for public scholarship. The award recognizes scholars who have applied or used their scholarship for the “public good.” This…
Professor Barbara Ransby was featured on CBS Chicago on winning the prestigious 2018 Angela Y. Davis Prize from the American Studies Association for public scholarship.
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education features Professor Barbara Ransbyfor receiving the American Studies Association’s 2018 Angela Y. Davis Prize for Public Scholarship.
Professor Barbara Ransby was interviewed by Chicago Public Radio WBEZ on being named the recipient of the American Studies Association’s 2018 Angela Y. Davis Prize for Public Scholarship.
Professor Barbara Ransby was featured in a discussion with WBEZ South Side Reporter Natalie Moore on “Black Politics in Chicago.” The discussion highlighted Professor Ransby’s new book, Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in…
Professor Kishonna Gray was featured on the Built to Play Podcast “So everything is broken: What do we do to fix the world we love?” Dr. Gray tells us in this podcast how to…
GWS Professor Jennifer Brier participated in a panel discussion titled “VISUAL AIDS: Documents: Art, AIDS & Activism in Chicago. The panel followed a screening program including video diaries, documentary footage, and oral histories; the project…
GWS Professor Barbara Ransby was cited for her activist work during the Chicago “Women’s March to the Polls” in a recent Chicago Sun Times Article. The march centered around the need for voter…
Dr. Nishida was the featured speaker for a Conversation on Disability Justice at the Japanese American Service Committee. Professor Nishida uses research, education, and activism to work towards cross-community solidarity for the liberation and…
Professor Kapadia spoke about his forthcoming book Insurgent Aesthetics at a roundtable discussion on Perverse Decolonization at the University of Chicago.
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Where you live is, for better or for worse, an expression of who you are. Some people, though, are better at expressing themselves through design than others. The new traveling exhibit “Everyone’s a…
“Exploring the Roots of Chicago’s Queer South Asian Community,” the fourth episode of NBC Asian America’s five-part series documenting the history of LGBTQ Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, features UIC’s Global Asian Studies program…
The Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mark Brown quotes Jennifer Brier, UIC director of gender and women’s studies and associate professor of gender and women’s studies and history, in a column about UIC alumna Lulú…
During a recent UIC Campus Conversation, GWS Affiliates Beth Richie and Natalie Bennett gave their voice about the emergence of the #MeToo movement and its cultural impact. In the hopes of diminishing sexual…
Congratulations to GWS Affiliate faculty Dr. Anna Guevarra, Director and Associate Professor in Global Asian Studies Program and Co-PI of the UIC AANAPISI Initiative, on receiving an Award of Distinction in Public Scholarship from the Filipino section of the Asian American Studies Association. …
The Washington Examiner quotes Barbara Ransby, UIC distinguished professor of African American studies, gender and women’s studies, and history, in an article about community concerns involving former President Barack Obama’s presidential center on the South…
Ronak Kapadia, UIC assistant professor of gender and women’s studies and Global Asian studies, is quoted in a story from the weekly online newsletter from Quartz (qz.com) that critically examines how television producer…
Jennifer Brier, UIC director of gender and women’s studies and associate professor of gender and women’s studies and history, is quoted in an article appearing in the March 2018 issue of Chicago magazine…
Chicago Access Network Television (CAN-TV) recorded a recent discussion hosted by the Institute for the Humanities at UIC about sexual harassment and sexual assault from a humanities perspective including theory, history and cultural…
The Chronicle of Higher Education quotes Barbara Ransby, UIC distinguished professor of African American studies, gender and women’s studies, and history, in story on how women’s studies scholars have been impacted by the current contentious…
Activist and organizer TaniaCarrasco has opinion piece published in USA Today. Tania is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago, with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology and Gender and Women Studies,…
Jennifer Brier, UIC director of gender and women’s studies and associate professor of gender and women’s studies and history, will be among the featured experts on a Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ-FM 91.5) “Worldview”…
The Chicago Sun-Times interviewed Barbara Ransby, UIC distinguished professor of African American studies, gender and women’s studies, and history, in an article about the evolution of the Black Lives Matter movement and how…
Lynette Jackson, UIC associate professor of gender and women’s studies and African American studies, is quoted in a Chicago Tribune article that reflects on the activism inspired by last year’s Women’s Marches and…
Rewire News, a website focused on reproductive and sexual health, rights and justice issues, features a film review written by Jennifer Brier, director of UIC’s gender and women’s studies program. Brier, who is…
Dr. Schaffner’s research deploys critical perspectives of youth in trouble with the law, with an emphasis on political responses by the juvenile corrections systems, both legal and psychiatric. Her work has earned awards…
Sunday’s New York Times featured an op-ed by Barbara Ransby, UIC distinguished professor of African American studies, gender and women’s studies, and history, on the organization and leadership of The Movement for Black Lives…
Jenny Korn, a doctoral candidate in communication and gender and women’s studies, is among 20 scholars selected to receive a fellowship from The Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University…
Zachary Blair recieved an honorable mention for his work “Affect and Solidarity Constructed” in response to last years shooting at the Pulse Nightclub in Florida. After the mass shooting at the Pulse Nightclub…
In These Times magazine features an article by Barbara Ransby, UIC distinguished professor of African American studies, gender and women’s studies, and history, who writes about President Trump’s pardon of former Arizona Sheriff…
The National Women’s Studies Association is pleased to announce its 2017 book prize award winners and honorable mentions. The Alison Piepmeier book prize is awarded for groundbreaking monographs that make significant contributions…
We are proud to announce that our own Dr. Roderick Ferguson has been named president-elect of the American Studies Association, and will take on this new post in July. Follow this link for…
Beloved UIC professor and feminist philosopher Sandy Bartky is celebrated in a Ms. Magazine post about her lifetime achievements and remarkable scholarship. Ms. Magazine Link
November 28, 2016 The National Women’s Studies Association Statement on Combatting the Climate of Fear, Division and Xenophobia in the Wake of the U.S. Presidential Election The National Women’s Studies Association met in…
Peoria Public Radio interviewed Jennifer Brier, UIC Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and History and Director of Gender and Women’s Studies, in a World AIDS Day story looking at the future…
Barbara Ransby, UIC distinguished professor of African American Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, and History. who directs the Social Justice Initiative at UIC, reviews “They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a…
Dr. Barbara Ransby will be the new president of the National Women’s Studies Association, 2016-2018. Please follow this link to the UIC News Center article on our distinguished faculty member. Barbara Ransby is an…
Gayatri Reddy has received two prestigious fellowships from The American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (WGF) for her project, “The Karma of Black Folk: Siddis and…
The KIP Project at the American University of Beirut has awarded Nadine Naber with a grant for her project, “Sectarianism and National Emergencies: Barriers or Facilitators for Women, Sexual Minorities, and Transgender People?”…
Barbara Ransby, UIC distinguished professor of African American studies, gender and women’s studies and history, is quoted in The New Yorker magazine’s article on the Black Lives Matter movement, how it differs from…
Jennifer Brier’s oral history project on women and HIV has received funding from the MAC AIDS Foundation. This will expand the project to North Carolina and New York. Read the article in UIC…
Nadine Naber, working with Junaid Rana from UIUC, has published a piece about the American Anthropology Association’s vote on Israeli boycotts. Click here to read, Why Voting Matters.
Colorlines.com features a column by Barbara Ransby, UIC professor of African American studies, gender and women’s studies and history and director of the Social Justice Initiative, on issues surrounding leadership of the current…
WFRV-TV Channel 5, the FOX affiliate in Green Bay, Wisc., reported on a presentation by Beth Richie, Director of the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy at UIC, who discussed the National Football Leagues efforts to address domestic violence and sexual assault.
