Congratulations to GRID student Asha Sawhney for presenting at the American Sociological Association (ASA) Conference! Asha presentation titled "Beyond Ethnicity and ‘Belonging:’ The Global Aspirations of Afghan Refugees in Delhi, India"

GRID student Mahbubeh Moqadam has published a peer-reviewed academic article in the Journal of Asian African Studies titled 'Ali Shariati and Crafting a Collective Revolutionary Islamic Identity for Women: A Socio-Historical Perspective' (November 2023). 

    GRID student Janet Husunukpe presented her paper 'Centering African Feminist Practice in De-colonial Discourse' at the African Studies Conference that took place in December 2023.

  GRID student Adetutu Fabusoro will be presenting at the Academy of Human Resource Development in February in Virginia. The title of her paper is 'Career Experiences of Non-Native English-Speaking Workers in Corporate Organizations in Relation to Communication Competence: A Structured Literature Review. Here is the...

Lila Ann M. Wong, one of the GRID fellows and a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at UIUC, is awarded a Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant; she recently completed 14 months of ethnographic research in Burkina Faso studying the political economy of cultural development, with a special emphasis on Burkinabè women's efforts to build of careers in the performing...

Anissa Chitwanga, a GRID fellow, has been awarded the: "Daniel S. Sanders Peace and Social Justice Memorial Fund Travel Award." This award will be used for travel expenses to support Anissa's research presentation at the biennial Joint Conference on Social Work, Education, and Social Development (SWSD), scheduled for April 4-7, 2024, in Panama.

Lila Ann M. Wong, one of the GRID fellows and a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at UIUC, and her colleague Hamadou Traoré collaboratively developed the program "Éducation Autour de la Culture" (Education Centered on Culture) in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. Involving multiple weekly workshops in storytelling, dance, theater, music, singing, and crafts for approximately 100...

Beatriz Carvalho Teixeira attended the Brazilian National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Social Sciences (ANPOCS) conference on October 20th. Her paper was titled “Violence against Women in Politics: An Exploratory Study of the 2022 Elections in Brazil” and was presented in the session titled “Feminisms in Politics: representation, participation, and Movements."

Aysenur Senel presented at the National Women Studies Association Conference held from October 26-29, 2023. She presented in the "Roundtable: Dissident Identities: Gendered Cartographies of Resistance in Communities of Color." 

Mayra Alejandra Saenz Amaguaya's Job Market Paper, titled "Can Institutional Factors Affect Intergenerational Family Transfers?" was accepted at The Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) Conference, jointly organized with the Latin American Chapter of the Econometric Society (LAMES). The joint conference "is currently regarded as one of the most prestigious gatherings of...