History Professors David Sepkoski (UIUC) and Mark Borello (Minnesota) recently co-wrote “Ideology as Biology” for The New York Review, in which they challenge the late renowned biologist Edward O. Wilson’s legacy, calling attention to his development and application of “...
Professor Brett Ashley Kaplan (Comp. & World Lit) interviews interdisciplinary performance artist Deke Weaver whose lifelong project has been the creation of a multimedia Unreliable Bestiary. Deke Weaver is a writer-...- Using a survey of faculty specializations we conducted this spring, we have for the first time created a map of contemporary theory at UIUC. The results show that our 112 affiliates work in 10 colleges and 42 departments across campus. The top five theoretical subfields are race/gender/indigeneity and sexuality, globalization, aesthetics, biopolitics, and ethics/law and justice. We...
Awarded by the National Women's Studies Association, the Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize recognizes groundbreaking monographs in women's studies that makes significant multicultural feminist contributions to women of color/transnational scholarship. Moussawi was awarded for his book, Disruptive Situations: Fractal Orientalism and...
Unit affiliate faculty, Leslie Reagan (History) was recently featured on the Ezra Klein Show podcast and BBC-Radio World News to discuss the history of abortion in the US and the Texas abortion ban. Reagan, who is author of When Abortion was a Crime and ...
"There are so many ways we can be displaced--shut out--including by the very appearance of an open door or a welcome. That door can be shut at any point to stop us getting in or that door can be shut because we get in." Sara Ahmed discusses complaints in her talk titled, "Knocking on the Door: Complaints and Other Stories About Institutions." This talk was delivered on May 6, 2021 as a part of...
Unit Affiliated Graduate student Adrian Wong has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellowships. "He will travel to the greater Santiago Metropolitan Region to study the development of digital infrastructure in Chile amid the context of social and environmental inequality and Chile-China relations. The fellowship will provide him with the means to live in...
"New Philadelphia was the first known town planned and legally registered by an African American before the Civil War. Frank McWorter, a formerly enslaved man from Kentucky, founded the town in 1836 and bought his freedom and the freedom of 15 family members. The rural community situated near the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers flourished at first, but later declined when the railroad bypassed...