Ghassan Moussawi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Recently, Professor Moussawi received an honorable mention from the ASA's sexuality section for his co-authored piece with Salvador Vial-Ortiz titled "A Queer Sociology: On Power, Race, and Decentering Whiteness”. Sociological Forum (2020). Earlier this year,...

Dr. Anna Marshall is a Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in the Department of Sociology. Recently, Professor Marshall was involved in a project involving phosphorus sustainability where a $25 million grant was obtained from the National Science Foundation. To read more about Professor Marshall's involvement in this grant, click...

LAS Communications recently posted an article to highlight Kevin Leicht's research. The article is titled "How do we know what to believe? Kevin Leicht and his colleagues combat misinformation on social media." For the full article click here.  

Dr. Tim Liao's most recent essay for the general public is now published. The essay it titled "The Inequality of America’s “K-Shaped” Recovery." For the full essay please click here.

Please congratulate Professor Jose Atiles and Professor Ghassan Moussawi who were rated as excellent instructors by their students this summer! Congratulations Professor Atiles and Professor Moussawi!

Please join me in congratulating Ghassan for having his book selected to receive the National Women's Studies Association's 2021 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize. Congratulations Dr. Moussawi!

Please join me in congratulating Dr. Anna-Maria Marshall, who is a co-PI at the Science and Technology Center – the “Science and Technologies for Phosphorus Sustainability Center” – and they've been awarded an NSF $25 million grant that supports transdisciplinary research on making phosphorus more sustainable. Anna will be doing research on adoption and diffusion...

Congratulations to Dr. Kevin Leicht who is one of the three scholars invited to speak to Congress as an expert witnesses about Covid-19 misinformation. For more information on the event click here.

Dr. Tim Liao recently published the article “Social and Economic Inequality in Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination Coverage across Illinois Counties,” in Scientific Reports.  Click here for the full...

With his co-PIs from the campus, their "Developing Easy-to-Use Application-Based Software to Combat Social Media Misinformation – a Multi-Disciplinary Collaboration" has been selected for a 2021 DPI Science Team award. DPI (Discovery Partners Institute) of Illinois aims to serve as "a magnet for the most ambitious talent Illinois has to offer," according to their vision statement....