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)....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- Asef Bayat was appointed as an editor in Middle East Report (Washington DC), and in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (Toronto).
- In an interview with Craig Chamberlain our department head Anna-Maria Marshall discusses civil unions legislation. Read Full Article
- Professor Saskia Sassen delivers the 2011 Florian Znaniecki Lecture on May 5, 2011 at the University of Illinois.
- 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 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...
- 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
- Professor Mendenhall, an expert on poverty and social mobility, speaks with News Bureau Social Sciences editor Craig Chamberlain. Read Full Article
- Rebecca L. Sandefur has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for her project, "Accessing Justice in Contemporary America: The Community Needs and Services Study" (SES-1123507) a community-sited, multi-method study investigating the American public’s experiences with problems that fall within the purview of the civil justice...
- "Our Revolution is Civil", an interview with Asef Bayat on the Revolt and Change in the Arab World is published in The Hedgehog Review: Critical Reflections in Contemporary Culture, Vol. 13, no. 3, Fall 2011, pp. 47-54.
- Chike Coleman, Sociology, University of Illinois, Class of 2010 “Reel Reviews with Chike” Urbana Public TV--Channel 6 Saturdays, 4:30-5:00 Find old episodes of the show: www.youtube.com/Chikec8 Find written film reviews: www.thewheelchairwatcher.squarespace.com...