02/05/2016 - Tim Liao collaborators have been awarded a grant (approx. $1 million Australian) to study the intergenerational transmission of joblessness. The proposed project seeks to understand the...
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02/05/2016 - 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...
02/05/2016 - Cynthia Buckley was selected to join a group of 20 leading scholars to help launch the German government's new interdisciplinary migration research center in Berlin. The group sought to provide...
01/27/2016 - 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...
01/27/2016 - 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....
01/27/2016 - Professor Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi has been selected to receive the LAS Humanities Council Teaching Excellence Award! Please join us in congratulating him.
12/01/2010 - Tim Liao lectured at Academia Sinica in December of 2010. The title of his lecture was ...
Professor Zsuzsa Gille was elected to the American Sociological Association Global and Transnational Sociology section"s council. Please join us in congratulating her.
Our new colleague, Cynthia Buckley, joined a select group of specialists in an Expert Analytical Exchange for Ambassador Susan Elliot (Tajikistan) at the U.S. Department of State on August 1st. Her...
"Our Revolution is Civil", an interview with Asef Bayat on the Revolt and Change in the Arab World is published in The...
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....
Professor Saskia Sassen delivers the 2011...
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Five professors at the University of Illinois - Asef Bayat,Joy Harjo, ...
Ruby Mendenhall won the Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award from the McNair Scholars Summer Research Institute. Her student, Artesha Williams, received the Outstanding Scholar Award for her research on...
Rebecca L. Sandefur has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for her project, "Accessing Justice in Contemporary America: The Community...