On November 6, a small delegation of Women’s and Gender Studies 391 students spent the day looking at Chicago through the lens of community development and immigration struggles.
WGS students see firsthand immigrants’ impact on Chicago
Unit: Sociology and Anthropology
ISU professor wins American Studies Association Dissertation Prize
Illinois State’s Women’s and Gender Studies Program is proud that Professor Erin Durban-Albrecht has been honored with the Ralph Henry Gabriel Dissertation Prize 2015 awarded by the American Studies Association (ASA) for her dissertation, Postcolonial Homophobia: United States Imperialism in Haiti and the Transnational Circulation of Antigay Sexual Politics.
Final film in Ethnographic Film Series November 16
The final film in the Ethnographic Film Series will be Oak Park Stories at 7 p.m. November 16. The free screenings will be at 7 p.m. in Schroeder Hall, room 138.
Final speaker in new Queer Talks series to discuss lesbian feminism
Queer Talks is a new lunchtime colloquium series dedicated to the scholarship of LGBTQ studies. The next talk in the series is November 6.
Redbird media: Books and recordings by ISU scholars
The following is a list of books and audio and video recordings released by Illinois State University faculty in the second half of 2014 and the first half of 2015:
South African academic residency inspires teaching and research
Winfred Avogo spent the summer inspiring graduate students in South Africa as part of his Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship.
Reactions: Migration crisis
As hundreds of thousands pour into Europe to escape war-torn areas, Associate Professor of Sociology Winfred Avogo explores the shift in population amid the turmoil.
Video: Changing lives together through Illinois State’s Peace Corps program
Once they finished their Peace Corps service, Ambuj Neupane and Katie Saunders were both hired as program analysts at the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C.
Sampeck chosen as visiting scholar for David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Associate Professor of Sociology Kathryn Sampeck was selected as the 2015-16 Central American Visiting Scholar of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) at Harvard University.
Model UN gives ISU students global experience
Illinois State junior Frank Cassata’s passion for international relations traces back to his family’s roots in Sicily. It’s that passion that led Cassata to join Illinois State’s Model UN team.
