Applause and congratulations to David Abugaber who recently found out that he is being awarded a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE)!! This will support…
Please join us in congratulating: Maryann Piel ( German) and Charlie Smith (PRLS) who received Dean’s Scholar Award, Daniel Everhart (Spanish) who received the Award for Graduate Research Anna Torres Mallma (Spanish) who is…
Please join us in congratulating both Margarita Saona and Keith Budner have been named recipients of the Institute for the Humanities Fellowships for the forthcoming academic year. This is an extraordinary achievement for…
We are happy to announce that once again the Italian program received considerable external funding, namely: 24,000 euros ($27,000) from the Italian ministry of Foreign Affairs, as a “tangible sign of attention” of…
Giedrius Subačius, Professor and Endowed Chair in Lithuanian Studies, has published his second volume on Simonas Daukantas’s orthography. Simon Daukanto: Sankt Peterburgo ortografija (1834-1846) (2022, Vilnius: Institute of Lithuanian History) represents a continuation…
UIC’s Stefan and Lucy Hejna Family Chair in Polish Language and Literature, Michał Markowski, contributed an essay “Indomitable Boredom Above the Entire World: Gombrowicz (and Other Polish Writers) on Existential Predicament” to the…
The graduate students of the UIC Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies are once again collaborating with their colleagues at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University to organize the Chicago Graduate Conference…
Junaid Quadri, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Program in Religious Studies, recently published a new book with Oxford University Press. Transformations of Tradition: Islamic Law in Colonial Modernity examines the…
The journal Archivum Lithuanicum, edited by Giedrius Subačius, endowed Chair in Lithuanian Studies at UIC, has received a grant of $57,000.00 from the Scientific Council of Lithuania. This grant is to cover expenses…
Margarita Saona’s book of short fiction, La ciudad en que no estás (Lima, 2021), has been nominated for the 2021 Luces Award in the short story category. This award is sponsored by El…
