LAS Faculty Research Bulletin Fall 2024

Fall 2024 | Vol. 3, Issue 1

LAS FACULTY

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IN THIS ISSUE

05 Message from the Dean 06 Grants and Fellowships 15 Early Career Awards 16 Freedom Scholar 18 Honors 20 Internal Awards 22 LAS Funding and Research Opportunities

MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN

Welcome.

Welcome to the fourth edition of the LAS Faculty Research Bulletin.

As you’ll see below, LAS faculty continue to garner an impressive number of awards from organizations large and small, public and private, for work across a broad range of disciplines, from chemistry, biology, and psychology to anthropology, history, and political science.

The common thread in all of them is the excellence of our faculty and their tenacity in pursuing knowledge and new understanding. It is a pleasure to recognize them here.

I’d also like to acknowledge the two LAS Distinguished Professors honored this year: Donald Wink, Professor of Chemistry, whose lecture was on October 1 (links to the recorded livestream and photos are on the event page) and Tarini Bedi, Professor of Anthropology, whose lecture will take place on Wednesday, February 5, 2025.

This has been a tremendous year for faculty recognition, as you’ll see detailed in the bulletin.

Professor Nadine Naber was named a 2024 Freedom Scholar, which puts her in excellent company with LAS faculty members Barbara Ransby (2020) and Beth Richie (2022) in receiving this extraordinary fellowship for community-engaged scholarship and activism. We are also celebrating Professor Barbara Ransby for her recent induction into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and Professor Nemat Oliver Keyhani for being named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, both outstanding and prestigious honors that testify to the national reach of LAS scholarship and research.

Finally, I want to take a moment to remind you to register for the fall LAS Faculty Research Symposium, AI IMPACT, organized by Professor Zizi Papacharissi, on October 24, 2024, at UIC. And save the date for the spring LAS Faculty Research Forum, organized by Professor Robert Klie, on February 26, 2025, entitled “From Atoms to Astronomy: How Materials Impact the Way We Understand Matter Over 25 Length Scales.” Watch your email for further details on the spring symposium.

Thank you for being part of our LAS community, and for reading the LAS Faculty Research Bulletin.

I expect you will be as impressed by our faculty as I am each and every day.

Yours, Lisa A. Freeman Dean

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

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BENJAMIN BAKKER

CHIEH CHANG

Associate Professor of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences

Benjamin Bakker, Associate Professor of Mathematics, has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for $330,000 for a project entitled “Non-abelian Hodge theory and transcendence.” The project will extend recent theoretical progress via o-minimal methods to the non-abelian setting and fosters involvement of students and earlycareer mathematicians.

Chieh Chang, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences received a grant from the National Institutes of Health in the amount of $440,908 for his study, “Understanding the relationship between precocious neuronal differentiation and early-onset neurodegeneration.” There are currently no effective treatments for neurodegenerative diseases. This investigation of a potential common mechanism in neurodegeneration fills a critical need for developing new model systems to study neurodegenerative mechanisms in order to identify novel therapeutic targets.

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MOLLY DOANE Associate Professor of Anthropology

Molly Doane, Associate Professor of Anthropology was awarded an $18,265 grant from the Field Museum for her project “Climate Action and Community-based Conservation in Chicago,” which focuses on Northside refugee and immigrant community gardens and urban farms, and community connections in underserved Northside neighborhoods like Albany Park and Rogers Park.

The work will contribute to the mission of the Field Museum’s Keller Science Action Center.

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ALEXANDER FURMAN

TOM DRIVER

LAS Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science

Professor of Chemistry

Tom Driver, Professor of Chemistry received a $575,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for the project “Leverage electron-rich metal carbenoids to address limitations in the synthesis of medium-sized rings.”

Medium-sized carbocycles and heterocycles are critical structural motifs in pharmaceuticals and natural products that are underutilized due to the shortage of synthetic methods to construct them. The project will develop new metal-catalyzed processes to create these important molecules.

Alexander Furman, LAS Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science has received a Simon Fellowship in Mathematics for BENJAMIN FEIGENBERG 2025. This prestigious award provides Associate Professor of Economics salary replacement for a sabbatical as well as an additional $10,000 for research expenses. Professor Furman Benjamin Feigenberg, Associate will devote his fellowship time to furProfessor of Economics, is co-PI with thering his work on rigidity in Geometry Anjali Adukia and Fatemeh Momeni of the and Group theory and its interaction University of Chicago on a researchwith some aspects of Dynamics of practice partnership project with Chicago group actions. The project will explore Public Schools entitled “From Retributive new connections between these fields, and will ultimately produce a monoto Restorative: An Alternative Approach to Justice,” which has received $99,890 graph on the topics. from Arnold Ventures. The project evaluates whether restorative justice practices in schools are effective in reducing suspension rates and child arrests and improving school climate.

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DAVID HERNÁNDEZ URIBE Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences

MATTHEW HARRISONTRAINOR Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science

Matthew Harrison-Trainor, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science has received the prestigious 2024 Sloan Research Fellowship, which awards $75,000 to innovative early career researchers with extraordinary potential to become future leaders in their field. Professor Harrison-Trainor studies complex problems at the intersection of mathematical logic and computability theory and is part of the interdisciplinary mathematical computer science group.

David Hernández Uribe, Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, has been awarded $427,699 from the National Science Foundation for his project, “Tracing the origins of fertile magma formation in the porphyry copper systems of Sonora, Mexico,” which will improve understanding of how copper deposits are formed and develop geochemical tools to facilitate discovery of new deposits of the metal, which plays a critical role in the transition to renewable energy.

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NEAL MANKAD Professor and Associate Head of Chemistry

Neal Mankad, Professor and Associate Head of Chemistry, was awarded $390,597 by the National Science Foundation Critical Aspects of Sustainability program for the project “Controlling solid electrolyte interphases using organometallic electrolyte additives,” which will develop new organometallic complexes to serve as additives in battery electrolytes. At the interface of organometallic chemistry, electrochemistry, and battery design, the work aims to improve the long-term cycling stability and operational safety of high-density batteries and will likely have broad scientific impact on electrochemical cell/battery design, performance, and sustainability.

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GAVIN MCNICOL Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Gavin McNicol, Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences was awarded a $999,554 grant from the Department of Energy for the project “Effects of Yellow Cypress Decline on Coastal Temperate Rainforest Climate Interactions,” on which he is the Principal Investigator. Max Berkelhammer, Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, is a co-investigator. The ecologically and culturally significant Yellow Cypress is in severe decline in the Southeast Alaska rainforest - a global hotspot for terrestrial carbon storage. This project will produce new empirical data on carbon and water cycling in this rainforest to improve our predictive understanding of the consequences of largescale shifts in vegetation composition in an understudied region. The results will directly inform the improvement of widely-used terrestrial ecosystem models that can be used to predict future responses to climate change.

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HEIDI SCHLIPPHACKE

IMKE MEYER Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Germanic Studies

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Germanic Studies

Imke Meyer, Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies and Heidi Schlipphacke, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, from the Department of Germanic Studies have both received fellowships of $33,729 each from the Ruhr Research Alliance for their joint project, “Inclinations: Männerfreundschaften/Frauenfreundschaften,” which explores the slippages and boundaries between the concepts of homosociality, homoeroticism, and homosexuality in the context of gendered identities in the literary sphere of the Enlightenment and its immediate aftermath through inquiring what similarities, differences, boundaries, and slippages come into focus when one looks at male-male and female-female bondings side by side.

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JOEL NAGLOO

IVÓN PADILLARODRÍGUEZ

Associate Professor of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science

Joel Nagloo, Associate Professor of Mathematics, received $300,000 from the National Science Foundation for “Model Theory, Geometric Structures and Special Functions,” which will significantly expand his previous work on applications of model theory (a branch of mathematical logic) to tackle several far-reaching open problems centered around the study of geometric structures. The research will make progress on fundamental questions about the algebraic nature of the wide class of special functions coming from geometric structures (as well as from other physical applications) and use these to attack related problems in diophantine geometry.

Assistant Professor of History

ANDY NGUYEN Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Andy Nguyen, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, has been awarded the prestigious NIH/NIGMS Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA – R35) of $1,918,566. This recognition highlights his significant contributions to the field and underscores the outstanding research being conducted in the Chemistry department. The grant will support his work to develop accurate models of metalloenzymes using metalpeptide frameworks.

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Ivon Padilla-Rodriguez, Assistant Professor of History is a recipient of the prestigious National Academy of Education/ Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship, which awards $70,000 for projects that address critical issues in the history, theory, or practice of education. Her book, “Stolen Innocence: How the United States Robbed Migrant Minors of Their Childhood,” will explore the history of rights violations against migrant youth, including educational deprivation and labor exploitation, under U.S. laws and policies, such as the well-intentioned1965 Migrant Education Program, which inadvertently led to further harm and surveillance of migrant families.

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MICHAEL PASEK

ALEXANDRA FILINDRA

Assistant Professor of Psychology (Principal Investigator)

Professor of Political Science and Psychology (co-Investigator)

Michael Pasek, Assistant Professor of Psychology (Principal Investigator) and Alexandra Filindra, Professor of Political Science and Psychology (co-Investigator), have received a grant of $74,712 from the Russell Sage Foundation for their project “Who Is and Should Be American? How Religion, Race, and Demographic Shifts Shape Perceptions of American Identity.”

The study, conducted in collaboration with Clara Wilkins at the University of Washington, explores how White Christians use race and religion to evaluate who they perceive to be “true Americans” and which non-White Christian groups they believe are potential social and political allies, with a focus on Latinx immigrants.

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KIMBERLY SCHONERT-REICHL Professor of Community and Applied Developmental Psychology

Kimberly Schonert-Reichl, Professor of Community and Applied Developmental Psychology, received a grant of $95,312 from Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) to lead the project “Advancing the Science, Practice, and Policy of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL),” which will launch the first SEL journal in the field and a program to create a community of early career scholars who will advance and innovate SEL research, practice, and policy.

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ROMAN SHVYDKOY

MAHESH SOMASHEKHAR

Professor of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science

Roman Shvydkoy, Professor of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, was awarded $280,000 from the National Science Foundation for his project, “Hydrodynamic Theory of Environmental Averaging and Selforganization.” Building on the recent recognition that the collective behavior of large swarms can follow rules similar to those used to study motion of liquid, this project will investigate the fundamental mathematical properties of hydrodynamic collective models and their application to collective phenomena. The applications of this research are numerous including opinion mean-field games, segregation modeling, and modeling of turbulent phenomena in 2D inviscid fluids.

Assistant Professor of Sociology

PRESTON SNEE Associate Professor of Chemistry

Preston Snee, Associate Professor of Chemistry, is the Principal Investigator of the US-German collaborative project, “Heterogeneous Nanoparticle Dynamics at Chromatographic Interfaces,” which was awarded a $201,000 grant from the National Science Foundation with joint funding from the German funding agency Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for the German partner. Chromatography is a key method used to characterize nanoscale objects such as molecules and biological particles, which is crucial in fields such as environmental science and medical diagnostics. The research will develop new experimental techniques in liquid chromatography that will lead to new fundamental understanding of the technique and considerably improve performance.

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Mahesh Somashekhar, Assistant Professor of Sociology, was awarded $425,726 from the National Science Foundation for the project “Understanding Gentrification and Commercial Displacement in Neighborhoods across the U.S.” Community organizations promote civil society, provide needed goods and services, and enhance the health of communities.

This project will analyze over 40 years of geographical data to provide an unparalleled view of the spatial evolution of community organizations displaced by gentrification. The work will advance understanding of what types of organizations are displaced, what happens to them after displacement, and what effect this has on communities.

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MARÍA DE LOS ANGELES TORRES LAS Distinguished Professor, of Latin American and Latino Studies

María de los Angeles Torres, LAS Distinguished Professor, of Latin American and Latino Studies, together with Katrin Hansing, of the City University of New York, has received a collaborative research award of $248,284 from the National Endowment for the Humanities for the project, “Democratizing the Past: Cuban Memories of Angola’s Civil War.” The work will shed light on a suppressed chapter of Cuban history and initiate broader conversations about war, trauma, memory, and their impacts on society. The co-PIs will travel to Angola to conduct interviews, organizing exhibitions, and conduct workshops and talks.

Led by Principal Investigator Maria de los Angeles Torres, LAS Distinguished Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, the Crossing Latinidades initiative has received a $5 million, three-year extension grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This extension will focus on supporting PhD students developing dissertation proposals in Latino humanities. Each Hispanic-Serving Institution in the consortium (19 in addition to UIC) can choose two doctoral students for this grant. The students will participate in a summer Latino humanities research methods workshop at UIC and then receive stipends to work as research assistants with professors, preferably at their home institution. The Center for Latinx Literatures of the Americas, led by Daniel Borzutzky, Professor of English and Latin American and Latino Studies, will also be involved in the project. In addition to UIC, the alliance includes Arizona State University; the Graduate Center, CUNY; Florida International University; Texas Tech University; University of ArizonaTucson; University of California system institutions of Irvine, Riverside, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz; University of Central Florida; University of Colorado Denver; University of Houston; University of Nevada, Las Vegas; University of New Mexico; University of North Texas; and the University of Texas system institutions of Arlington, Austin, El Paso and San Antonio.

Read more about the Crossing Latinidades extension on UIC today.

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XIAOJING YANG Professor of Chemistry

Xiaojing Yang, Professor of Chemistry has been awarded $1,979,455 from the National Eye Institute at the National Institutes of Health for the project “Structures, light signaling and allostery mechanisms of photoreceptor kinases.” Photoreceptor kinases are multi-domain signaling proteins that regulate a wide range of light responses in living organisms. The proposed work will take an integrated approach of structural biology, biochemistry, and spectroscopy to tackle the molecular mechanisms of light-dependent kinase activation in two representative bilin-based photoreceptors. The findings hold great promise for diverse biomedical applications that exploit light to probe cellular processes, modulate biological functions, and treat human diseases. Importantly, the mechanistic understanding gained from these naturally occurring photoreceptors will lay the foundation for ultimately engineering light-activated enzymes of desired signaling logic in novel therapeutic solutions via optogenetics.

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EARLY CAREER AWARDS JENNIFER JONES Associate Professor of Sociology and Latin American and Latino Studies Jennifer Jones, Associate Professor of Sociology and Latin American and Latino Studies has received a Mid-Career Advancement (MCA) Award from the National Science Foundation in the amount of $422,711 for her project, “Investigating the Mechanisms of Integration in U.S. Communities,” which will be among the first to take a rigorous multi-scalar, multidimensional, mixed-methods approach to identifying the key characteristics that lead to stable integration. The novel empirical and theoretical insights into how and to what extent social integration is achieved will make an important contribution to our understanding of persisting inequality. MCA awards provide protected time and resources for recently-tenured faculty to substantively advance their research program through synergistic partnerships.

MARCUS MICHELEN Assistant Professor of Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science Marcus Michelin, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science has received a $400,000 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for his project “Analytic and High-dimensional Methods in Probability,” which focuses on random structures with many degrees of freedom. Random structures are ubiquitous throughout the sciences for their use as models and in the design of algorithms. The project will also bring together researchers from disparate mathematical sub-fields in workshops aimed at early-career researchers and graduate students.

Considered the most prestigious grant awarded by the NSF, the CAREER award supports particularly promising early career researchers with exceptional promise to become role models in the integration of education and research.

GABRIELA NUNEZ MIR Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences Gabriela Nunez Mir, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, is one of five recipients of the Walder Foundation’s Biota Award, which provides $300,000 to early-career researchers who explore creative new solutions to restore and preserve the ecosystem. Her project, “America’s Next Top Invaders: Predicting invasive range size using a traits-based framework,” investigates the mechanisms that drive the range size of over 900 invasive plant species across the United States and will produce watchlists of potentially highly invasive plants that help inform early intervention and invasive surveillance efforts of land managers in the Chicago region and Illinois.

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2024 FREEDOM SCHOLAR NADINE NABER Professor and Interim Director of Gender and Women’s Studies, Professor of Global Asian Studies, and affiliated faculty in Anthropology

Nadine Naber, Professor and Interim Director of Gender and Women’s Studies, Professor of Global Asian Studies, and affiliated faculty in Anthropology, has been selected as a 2024 Freedom Scholar. Funded by the Marguerite Casey Foundation and launched in 2020, the prestigious Freedom Scholar award reflects the Foundation’s commitment to supporting radical scholarship and praxis that can inform liberatory approaches to social and political transformation.

The award includes an unrestricted $250,000 fund to spend as the awardee deems fit. The selection process is invite-

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only, and the Foundation does not accept outside nominations. Professor Naber joins her LAS faculty colleagues Barbara Ransby (2020) and Beth Richie (2022) in receiving this recognition.

Professor Naber’s research interests lie at the intersections of transnational feminisms; women of color and queer of color theory; de-colonizing feminisms; empire studies; critical race studies; Middle East studies; and Arab American studies. Drawing upon these fields, her research theorizes

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Race and Arab Americans (Syracuse UP, 2008); Arab and Arab American Feminisms (winner of the 2012 Arab American Book Award; Syracuse UP, 2010); and Towards the Sun (Tadween Press/ George Mason University, 2020). She is lead author of the policy reports, “Beyond Profiling and Erasure: Cultivating Strong and Vibrant Arab American Communities in Chicagoland.” (IRRPP/UIC, 2022).

Professor Naber is the recipient of major awards such as the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Prize from the American Studies Association; the 2002 YWCA’s Y-Women’s Leadership Award; and a recipient of an Andrew W. Mellon Humanities Without Walls Grand Research Challenge grant in 2021. Professor Naber is the co-founder of Arab and Muslim American Studies program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She was the faculty founder and former director of the Arab American Cultural Center at UIC.

the racialization of Arab and Muslim Americans within the contexts of empire and diaspora. She is the Co-PI of the Middle East and Muslim Societies Cluster and Co-Organizer of the Global Middle East Studies Working Group. She is author of Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism (NYU Press, 2012); the book-length report “The Paradox of Social Development in the Arab Region” (United Nations, 2015); and Pedagogies of the Radical Mother: Chicagoland’s Mother-Activists on Policing, Immigration, and War (under contract at Haymarket Press, Chicago). She is the co-author or co-editor of The Color of Violence (South End Press, 2006);

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As a public, community-engaged scholar, Professor Naber is co-founder of the non-profit organization, Mamas Activating Movements for Abolition and Solidarity (MAMAS). She has served on steering committees of social movements such as INCITE! Women and Gender Non-Conforming People Against Violence and Arab Movement of Women arising for Justice (AMWAJ). She is an advisor to the National Network of Arab American Communities; a board member of the Arab American Action Network; a TEDX speaker and a columnist for the Chicago Reporter. Her work has been featured on NPR, iHeart Radio, and in the Chicago Tribune.

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HONORS XÓCHITL BADA Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies Xóchitl Bada, Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, won the 2024 American Political Science Association Latin@/x Caucus Best Book Award for Scaling Migrant Worker Rights: How Advocates Collaborate and Contest State Power (Univ. of California Press, 2023) with her co-author Shannon Gleeson. The Latin@/x Caucus Best Book Award recognizes an outstanding book that examines the politics of Latinxs in the United States, exploring the ways in which race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and/or class affect Latinxs in their quest for social and political empowerment.

BRIAN BAUER Professor of Anthropology Brian Bauer, Professor of Anthropology, received la Medalla de la ciudad de la Municipalidad Provincial del Cusco, in Peru, the “Medal of Cusco.” Professor Bauer is an expert in Andean civilizations, among other topics, and he is the author of multiple books and articles about the region. His research in and about the region, including on the ancient civilization of the Incas and others, has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and National Geographic Grants.

ALEXANDRA FILINDRA Professor of Political Science and Psychology Alexandra Filindra, Professor of Political Science and Psychology, received an honorable mention for the Robert E. Lane Award for her book, Race, Rights, and Rifles: The Origins of the NRA and Contemporary Gun Culture (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2023), from the American Political Science Association Political Psychology Section. The Robert E. Lane award honors the best book in political psychology published in the last year.

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HAYLEY NEGRIN Assistant Professor of History Hayley Negrin, Assistant Professor of History, won the Leopold-Hidy Award for the best article published in Environmental History in 2023 for “Return to the Yeokanta/River: Powhatan Women and Environmental Treaty Making in Early America.”

NEMAT OLIVER KEYHANI Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished Chair in the Natural Sciences and Professor of Biological Sciences Nemat Oliver Keyhani is one of three UIC faculty and the only LAS faculty member named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for the 2023 class. This is one of the most prestigious honors for a researcher, and recognizes Professor Keyhani’s work in fungal-host interactions, particularly in insects and plants.

Founded in 1848, the AAAS now exists to “advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world, for the benefit of all.” AAAS Fellows are elected annually by the AAAS council and are recognized at the annual Fellows Forum.

It is a lifetime honor, and previous Fellows have included Thomas Edison, W. E. B. DuBois, Maria Mitchell, and Ellen Ochoa.

Read more about Keyhani’s AAAS promotion on UIC today.

BARBARA RANSBY John D. MacArthur Chair, and LAS Distinguished Professor, of Black Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, and History Barbara Ransby, John D. MacArthur Chair, and LAS Distinguished Professor, in the Departments of Black Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, and History, was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in the Humanities and Arts – History subsection. The AAAS exists to “honor excellence and convene leaders from every field of human endeavor.”

Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an independent research center that “engages experts in various fields and professions to provide pragmatic solutions for complex challenges.” Professor Ransby’s work as a historian centers marginalized Black, female historical figures like Ella Baker and Eslanda Goode Robeson. She is the Director of the Social Justice Initiative at UIC, which is the home of the Social Justice Minor and current hosts The Portal Project, a floating symposium on social, racial, and environmental justice.

Read Professor Ransby’s interview about this honor in UIC today.

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INTERNAL AWARDS UNIVERSITY SCHOLARS The University Scholar recognition program is sponsored by the Office of the President of the University of Illinois System and provides tangible recognition of faculty excellence.

NADINE NABER

MARK SCHLOSSMAN

Professor and Interim Director of Gender and Women’s Studies, Professor of Global Asian Studies, and affiliated faculty in Anthropology

Professor of Physics

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FACULTY AWARD Sponsored by the Offices of Faculty Affairs and Diversity, Equity, and Engagement, UIC’s Community Engagement Faculty Award recognizes the extraordinary achievements in community engagement of select faculty. The honor comes with a one-time $5,000 payment.

AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING The Award for Excellence in Teaching recognizes UIC’s most dedicated and outstanding teachers.

PAUL-BRIAN MCINERNEY Associate Professor of Sociology

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TEACHING RECOGNITION PROGRAM The UIC Teaching Recognition Program is UIC’s sef-nominated, faculty-administered teaching award program.

ERIC LESHIKAR

CARRIE PICHAN

Assistant Professor Psychology

Visiting Lecturer and Research Associate, Linguistics

KIM POTOWSKI

KAREN SU

JESSICA SHAW

Professor Hispanic and Italian Studies

Clinical Associate Professor, Global Asian Studies, GLAS Director of Undergraduate Studies

Associate Professor, Community and Applied Developmental Psychology

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FUNDING AND RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES

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Research Funding Opportunities for Humanities Scholars Applications are now open for the UIC Institute for the Humanities Faculty Fellowships! All full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty in humanities and related disciplines at the University of Illinois Chicago are eligible to apply for this award. Fellows make visible the interdisciplinary community at the University of Illinois Chicago, and are released from all formal teaching and administrative obligations for the fellowship period to pursue their scholarship. While in residence at the Institute, the fellows participate in workshops and deliver public lectures on their research. Applications are due by November 4, 2024. Questions about the fellowship can be directed to Ellen McClure.

You can also find a list of other fellowship and support opportunities for humanities (and humanities-adjacent) scholarship and research on the Institute’s website. Many deadlines are approaching quickly! Contact Eve Boles in OSSR if you plan to apply for one of these awards.

NSF Workshop for Linguists, Social, and Cognitive Scientists Join us for a workshop with Jorge Valdes Kroff, program director in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), focusing on NSF funding opportunities for minority-serving institutions.

October 23

2 – 4 p.m.

UH 1501

This event is organized by the School of Literatures, Cultural Studies, and Linguistics.

Research Support If you would like assistance identifying funding opportunities or developing a proposal, please get in touch with Anna Brailovsky, Assistant Director of Faculty Research Activities, or visit the LAS Research Development Website at rd.las.uic.edu.

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