• Professor Sandefur Speaks at the US Department of Justice
    2016-03-09 - On February 29, Professor Sandefur spoke about her research on public experience with justice problems and civil legal aid at a meeting co-chaired by US Attorney General, Loretta Lynch and the Director of President Obama's Domestic Policy Council, Cecilia Munoz. The event was attended by cabinet-level representatives from over 20 federal departments, including the Departments of State, Labor, the...
  • Congratulations Professor Buckley!
    2016-02-05 - Cynthia Buckley was selected to join a group of 20 leading scholars to help launch the German government's new interdisciplinary migration research center in Berlin. The group sought to provide guiding ideas about emerging issues in immigration to the EU.
  • Congratulations Professor Liao!
    2016-02-05 - Tim Liao collaborators have been awarded a grant (approx. $1 million Australian) to study the intergenerational transmission of joblessness. The proposed project seeks to understand the intergenerational transmission of joblessness and identify new ways in which the cycle of joblessness can be broken. The other PI’s are Irma Mooi-Reci and Mark Wooden at the University of Melbourne, Australia....
  • Congratulations Professor McDermott!
    2016-02-05 - Monica McDermott has been awarded a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation ($150,000, with collaborators Eric Knowles from NYU and Jennifer Richeson from Northwestern). The grant title is "Inequality, Diversity and Working Class White Attitudes".
  • Congratulations Professor Zerai!
    2016-02-05 - Assata Zerai (along with Brian Pianfetti in Civil and Environmental Engineering) has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. The grant will be used to bring young African scholars to campus to study public management (with further emphasis on issues of health, water, sanitation, and gender)....
  • A Minute With Professor Asef Bayat
    2016-01-27 - Five years ago this month, the Tunisians had brought down a dictator and the Egyptians were on their way to doing the same, beginning with massive demonstrations that grabbed the world’s attention. Protest and revolution would soon spread throughout the Middle East; it would be labeled as the “Arab Spring.” But five years later, there seems little but despair, with repressive rulers once again in...
  • Earned Income Tax Credit Study
    2016-01-27 - The Earned Income Tax Credit aids millions of Americans each year, lifting many out of poverty – but spacing it out in multiple payments could significantly reduce recipients’ dependence on payday loans and borrowing from friends and family, suggests a recent University of Illinois study of a pilot program in Chicago. Study participants who took half their estimated EITC in four periodic...
  • LAS Humanities Council Teaching Excellence Award
    2016-01-27 - Professor Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi has been selected to receive the LAS Humanities Council Teaching Excellence Award! Please join us in congratulating him.
  • Tim Liao gives Academia Sinica lecture
    2010-12-01 - Tim Liao lectured at Academia Sinica in December of 2010. The title of his lecture was Visualizing Life Course Sequences: A Comparison of Family Formation Between East and West...
  • Bayat appointed Middle East Report, International Journal editor
    Asef Bayat was appointed as an editor in Middle East Report (Washington DC), and in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (Toronto).
  • A Minute With Anna-Maria Marshall
    In an interview with Craig Chamberlain our department head Anna-Maria Marshall discusses civil unions legislation. Read Full Article
  • Sassen delivers 2011 Florian Znaniecki Lecture
    Professor Saskia Sassen delivers the 2011 Florian Znaniecki Lecture on May 5, 2011 at the University of Illinois.
  • Zsuzsa Gille elected to ASEEES Board of the Association
    Zsuzsa Gille has been elected to the Board of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). As the disciplinary representative appointed with the American Sociological Association, her three-year term begins this month and lasts through the close of December 2013.
  • Ruby Mendenhall receives A. Wade Smith Award for Teaching, Mentorship, and Service
    Ruby Mendenhall received the A. Wade Smith Award for Teaching, Mentorship, and Service from the Association of Black Sociologists. This award was established in 1998. Named in honor of A. Wade Smith, Ph.D., the award recognizes an ABS member for outstanding teaching, mentoring, and service. The A. Wade Smith Award was initiated to honor our beloved...
  • A Minute With Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi
    In an interview with Craig Chamberlain, Professor Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi discusses the recent election in Iran, held in the shadow of rising international tensions over Iran’s nuclear program. Read Full Article