The University of Illinois Press, in cooperation with Institute for the Humanities, presented the Fall 2020 Publishing Symposium. The symposium brought together two panels – one focused on writing, one on publishing –…
The UIC Institute for the Humanities is delighted to announce Humanities Without Walls Seed Grant awards. These awards fund humanities projects that demonstrate the Humanities Without Walls themes of reciprocity and redistribution. “Chicago’s…
Videos of the “Different Archives, Different Histories” conference are now available on the Institute for the Humanities YouTube Channel! This innovative conference, a collaboration between the Institute for the Humanities and the UIC…
C-SPAN2’s BookTV aired a virtual book event featuring Adam Goodman, UIC Assistant Professor history and Latin American and Latino studies, in conversation with author Francisco Goldman. To watch the video, go to: https://cs.pn/39kwMoP Lapham’s…
In an essay posted online at Medium.com and Spark: Elevating Scholarship on Social Issues (the magazine of the National Center for Institutional Diversity), Susila Gurusami, UIC assistant professor of criminology, law, and justice,…
July 21, 2020 David Stovall, UIC professor of Black studies and criminology, law, and justice, has been named the recipient of the American Educational Research Association’s 2020 Social Justice in Education Award, which…
UIC’s Institute for the Humanities attended “Community, Communications and the Humanities During the Pandemic” panel at the CHCI (virtual) national conference. Members suggest that now the “humanities work is more visible as people…
“The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants” by Adam Goodman, UIC assistant professor history and Latin American and Latino studies, is one of two books featured in a New York…
David Stovall, UIC professor of African American studies and criminology, law and justice, is interviewed in a Chicago Tribune story that analyzes Chicago crime and COVID-19 data and shows that many of the…
We are excited to announce the Institute for the Humanities Faculty Fellows for academic year 2020-2021. You can find more information about them here. Congratulations!
The Chicago Reporter published an op-ed from Rachel Havrelock, associate professor and director of the Freshwater Lab at UIC (funded by HWW seed grant), who writes about the Environmental Protection Agency suspending its…
David Stovall, 2019-2020 Institute Faculty fellow and professor of African American Studies and Criminology, Law and Justice, is quoted in a story from The Trace that explores if there will be a reduction…
Dear Colleagues, Given concerns over the COVID-19 spread, Institute for the Humanities is making alternate plans for the remaining events of the semester. While some talks may be streamed, other events that will…
2017-2018 Resident Graduate Scholar Avital Pathak (Department of Political Science) defended his dissertation “The Art of Governing Well: Freedom and the Practice of Government in Modern India,” on March 2020. Congratulations, Aviral!
The Institute for the Humanities honors the memory of Gene W. Ruoff, former Director of the Humanities from 1986 to 1996, who passed away on January 4, 2020. Please see the memorial below…
On February 27th, 2020, the Digital Humanities Initiative, in collaboration with the University Library and the Institute for the Humanities, hosted Digital Humanities in Practice: Project Development and Digital Pedagogy, a workshop led by digital…
Engaged Humanities Initiative Students at UIC presented at the 2020 Humanities Education and Research Association Conference in Chicago! Their panel was on March 7th; panel chair was our own Acting Director of the…
The University Library and the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago recently celebrated the Digital Humanities Initiative and the opening of the Digital Scholarship Hub at the Richard…
Resident Graduate Scholar 2018-2019 Manamee Guha (Department of History) defended her dissertation “Performing Britishness: The Club as a Representation of Power in Colonial Calcutta (1827-1947)” in October, 2019. Congratulations, Manamee!
William D’Alessandro, Resident Graduate Scholar 2016-2017. was recently awarded the American Philosophy Association 2019 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize for article “Viewing – as explanation and ontic dependence” (published in Philosophical Studies in…
Dear UIC Alumni and Friends: Please enjoy an online copy of our brochure celebrating the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago. We composed it…
