News Associate Professor Elizabeth Todd-Breland was interviewed in USA Today Elizabeth Todd-Breland, a professor of History and associate professor of African American Studies, said the moment is significant for a city that has long suffered racism and the marginalization of its black residents. “Toni and Lori’s respective… Professor Cedric Johnson featured Symposium & Jacobin Historian Cedric Johnson’s essay “The Panthers Can’t Save Us Now,” published in 2017 in the new socialist journal Catalyst, generated a lot of discussion and won the Daniel Singer Memorial Prize. Addressing a historic discussion about the tensions between race… Associate Professor of History Lynn Hudson Cited in New York Times Associate AAST Faculty and Professor of History Lynn Hudson is interviewed in a profile of Mary Ellen Pleasant, who was entrepreneur, financier, real estate magnate and abolitionist. Hudson is the author of the… Professor and Department Head Jane Rhodes cited in New York Times Professor and Department Head Jane Rhodes is cited in a New York Times Sunday Review article on the contributions of African-American women being overlooked in the history of the woman suffrage movement. Material… Professor Jennifer Brier Interviewed in a Hyde Park Herald Article Over the past two summers, youth from the South Side did a deep dive into their physical surroundings and their history and imagined what could rise from it in the future. “The idea… Professor Jennifer Brier featured in Chicago Tribune A Chicago Tribune article on an initiative to sponsor arts and humanities projects among the three University of Illinois campuses features comments from Jennifer Brier, UIC professor and director of gender and women’s… The African American Studies Departmental Award & Grace Holt Memorial Award We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for The Grace Holt Memorial Award and the African American Studies Departmental Award. To find out more information about each award please… Professor Barbara Ransby and Elizabeth Todd-Breland Works Named Best Books in 2018 “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… Education Week Interviewed Professor Elizabeth-Todd Breland Education Week interviewed Elizabeth Todd-Breland, UIC assistant professor of history, in an article about teacher unions seeking charter teachers to become members while simultaneously pushing anti-charter school policies within public education. Todd-Breland addresses… Professor Beth Richie Quoted in HuffPost HuffPost quotes Beth Richie, UIC professor and head of criminology, law, and justice, in an article on black female victims of domestic violence being hesitant to notify police about their attackers. “There is… Prev 1 … 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 … 18 Next
