Congratulations to Dr. R. Elizabeth Velasquez Estrada, Dr. Jessica Greenberg, and Dr. Magdalena Novoa for being awarded the HRI faculty fellowship for 2023-2024. The Humanities Research Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has awarded its annual Faculty and Graduate...
Dr. Pintar's Games Studies and Design project titled “Playful by Design: Expanding the Transformative Potentials of Games@Illinois” has been selected as one of 11 proposals to be supported through the Office of the Provost’s ...- Dr. Merle Bowen, a professor of African American studies, and Dr. Brian Ogolsky, a professor of human development and family studies are among the five scholars who have been recognized as University Scholars for excelling in scholarship, teaching, and service. They are awarded with $15,000 each for...
WGGP Faculty Affiliate Ryan Wade was a leading researcher in a study that found that "individuals’ emotional investment in their ethnicity can be a double-edged sword, buffering them from racism in some circumstances while exacerbating its harmful effects in others." The study was published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and...
WGGP Faculty Affiliate Sandraluz Lara-Cinisomo conducted an online study that analyzed depression and anxiety rates among Black and Latina women. The study was conducted with the assistance of graduate student Mary Ellen Mendy and was published in the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. Read the...
WGGP Faculty Affiliate Susan Koshy (Department of English) is guest editor of the latest issue of PMLA (October 2022), the flagship journal in literary studies. The special issue focuses on “Monolingualism and Its Discontents” with essays covering a wide range of historical periods, languages, and geographies. ...
WGGP faculty affiliate Kate Clancy's new book, Period: The Real Story of Menstruation, Period: The Real Story of Menstruation, was recently featured on Publisher's Weekly. Her stigma-breaking narrative "debuts with a bracing look at periods and how society lets down those who have them." ...
Heidi M. Hurd is the Ross and Helen Workman Chair in Law and Co-Director of the Program in Law and Philosophy at the University of Illinois College of Law. Professor Hurd has written numerous anthologized book chapters, peer-reviewed philosophical essays, and articles that have appeared in the nation’s top law journals. ...
Alberti Center Early Career Award, presented annually, recognizes an individual who has made exemplary scholarly contributions to the field of bullying abuse prevention and conducted research that has the potential to influence practice and policy. Rachel C. Garthe, PhD and an Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work, received this award. Dr Garthe’s research examines the...
Dr. Jose Atiles is an Assistant Professor of Sociology, and faculty affiliate in the Department of Latina/Latino Studies, Global Studies Program, the Center for Global Studies, and the Center for Latin America and Caribbean Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to his arrival at Illinois, Dr. Atiles was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Legal...