University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Professor Barbara Ransby has been named a John D. MacArthur Endowed Chair. Ransby is a professor of History, Gender and Women’s Studies, and Black Studies, a College…
Dr. Kishonna Gray, UIC Assistant Professor of Communication and Gender & Women’s Studies, talks to WFSU Radio, the public media outlet of Tallahassee and Panama City, Florida, about allegations of sexual assault and…
Dr. Barbara Ransby, UIC professor of Black Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, and History, writes about the legacy of the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis and how the current generation of young activists,…
GWS and COMM Assistant Professor Kishonna Gray’s support of the new text-based Games and Online Harassment Hotline, launching August 8, is the subject of a story from Kotaku. Read more at: https://bit.ly/3eAOC7T
GWS, BLST, and History professor Barbara Ransby writes that the white left needs to embrace Black leadership and understand that today’s uprisings are what class struggle in the 21st century looks like. “The White…
Barbara Ransby, LAS Distinguished professor and director of the Social Justice Initiative, was a featured guest on WBEZ’s “Reset” where she discussed the Black Lives Matter movement and how history can inform present-day…
GWS Director and Professor of History Jennifer Brier has published an oped in the Washington Post on the importance of women’s history in times of crises. “We Can’t Forget Women as We Tell…
A recent edition of “Upfront” on KPFA Radio (Berekley, CA) included an interview with John D’Emilio, UIC professor emeritus of history and gender and women’s studies, who discussed California Gov. Gavin Newsom posthumously…
Dr. Jennifer Brier, Professor of History and Director of Gender & Women’s Studies has published an American Association of University Professors piece titled “LGBTQ Students and the Liberation of College Campuses”
Congratulations to several GWS core and affiliate faculty who have been named recipients of the UIC Awards for Creative Activity program. Recipients include: GWS Core Faculty and Associate Professor of Anthropology Dr. Gayatri…
“Woke Gaming: Digital Challenges to Oppression and Social Justice” edited by Dr. Kishonna Gray and Dr. David Leonard was named as an Outstanding Academic Title (OAT) by Choice Reviews. Every January Choice Magazine,…
Karla Solis, now alum of UIC with Bachelor’s degrees in Gender & Women’s Studies and Latin American and Latino Studies was featured as one of UIC’s Inspiring Grads. Congratulations on all your hard…
Congratulations to GWS’s own Dr. Ronak K. Kapadia on publishing “Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War” (2019, Duke University Press) Check out the book here: https://www.dukeupress.edu/insurgent-aesthetics Attend the Chicago…
Dr. Anna Guevarra, GWS affiliate faculty and Director of Global Asian Studies, was featured in UIC Today for her work with students on food and culture in GLAS 230, Cultural Politics of Asian…
Dr. Esther Diaz Martin has published a chapter titled “Aprender Bordando” in Voices from the Ancestors: Xicanx and Latinx Spiritual Expressions and Healing Practices (2019, University of Arizona Press)
Dr. Kishonna Gray, Assistant Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and Communication at UIC was featured in an Op Ed in BET: The U.S. Video Game Industry Just Generated 43.4 Billion In Revenue…
The Telegraph (UK) features Dr. Kishonna Gray, UIC Assistant Professor of Communication and Gender and Women’s Studies, discussing what impact violent video games has on behavior versus the influence of recruiters within gaming…
The New York Times published an op-ed from Dr. Barbara Ransby, UIC professor of African American studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, and History. Professor Ransby writes about ‘The Squad’ – U.S. Representatives Ayanna…
GWS Professor Emeritus John D’Emilio was featured in CNN commentary on expanding use of the term “queer,” emphasizing the term’s flexibility and possibility for inclusion.
Congratulations to GWS Director Jennifer Brier and Affiliate Associate Professor Lorena Garcia on being chosen for the inaugural cohort of the Public Voices Fellowship, part of a national initiative from The OpEd Project…
Congratulations to GWS’s own Erica Chu for winning first runner up in the ACCC Panopto Contest. Check out Erica’s video here and more information on Panopto here.
Dr. Barbara Ransby and Dr. Beth Richie Featured in NYT Highlight on “Black Women in Chicago, Getting Things Done.” Dr. Barbara Ransby is Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies, African American Studies and…
Dr. Laurie Schaffner, Associate Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies, Sociology, and Criminology, Law, and Justice at UIC will receive the 2019 Maggie Kuhn Scholar-Activist Award from the Youth Aging and the Life…
Dr. Anna Romina Guevarra, Director of UIC Global Asian Studies, has been awarded the 2018 Holland Prize for the best article published in Volume 91 (2018) of Pacific Affairs. Dr. Guevarra’s article, “Mediations of Care:…
Dr. Barbara Ransby Featured by Democracy Now! discussing Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago mayoral victory, “Chicago Makes Herstory: First African American Woman and Gay Chicago Mayor Wins in Landslide.”
Dr. Barbara Ransby, UIC Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies, African American Studies, and History, was featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered,” discussing the significance of two black women in a race to…
GWS Director and Professor of History Dr. Jennifer Brier has been named UIC’s 2018 Distinguished Scholar of the Year for the Humanities, Arts, Design and Architecture. Professor Brier’s work on HIV/AIDS history, women’s…
Professor Jennifer Brier, GWS Director and Professor of History, was featured in an article in the Chicago Tribune on a UIC initiative to sponsor arts and humanities projects among the three University of…
Barbara Ransby, UIC Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies, recently joined Chicago Public Radio’s (WBEZ-FM 91.5) “Morning Shift” to discuss her latest book, “Making Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom In The 21st Century.”
HuffPost quotes Beth Richie, UIC Professor and Head of Criminology, Law, and Justice; African American Studies, and Gender & Women’s Studies, in an article on black female victims of domestic violence being hesitant…
Woke Gaming, co-edited by Kishonna L. Gray, UIC Professor Gender & Women’s Studies and Communication, was featured as one of the Six Best New Books About Video Games by The Guardian.
Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century, by Barbara Ransby, UIC professor of African American studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, and History; LAS distinguished professor; and Director of the…
GWS Professor and Director Jennifer Brier was featured in an article in The New York Times titled, ‘”He Did Not Lead on Aids’: With Bush, Activists See a Mixed Legacy.”
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 Times Article. The march centered around the need for voter turnout on…
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…
Dr. Beth Richie is the 2015 recipient of Dr. Natalie A. Stephens Visionary Award presented by Rape Victim Advocates (RVA). For more information from the RVA regarding Prof. Richie’s award and the event honoring…
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.
