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    Dr. Waïl S. Hassan elected as vice president of the Modern Language Association
    2025-01-14 - We are delighted to congratulate CSAMES affiliate and former CSAMES Director Waïl S. Hassan on his recent election as second vice president of the Modern...
  • Mara Thacker
    South Asian Librarian Mara Thacker Awarded Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity Seed Grant
    2024-07-09 - Mara Thacker, South Asian Studies & Global Popular Culture Librarian, is part of a team that has been awarded a $15,000 seed grant from the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE2) at Washington University in Saint Louis. The mission of CRE2 is to study how race and ethnicity are integral to the most complex and...
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    Taher Saif elected to National Academy of Engineering
    2024-02-08 - Taher Saif, the Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). He was elected “for characterizing mechanical properties of materials at small scales, with...
  • Atul Jain
    Atul Jain and seven other Illinois scientists ranked among world's most influential
    2023-11-15 - Jain studies the interaction between land and climate, which is impacted by human activities such as deforestation and agriculture intensification. His team has developed a global model-data integration framework that uses satellite and ground-based observations to study how those interactions modify the net fluxes of greenhouse gases and surface fluxes of water and energy. He contributes to...
  • Mithilesh Mishra 2023 Hindi Award Ceremony
    Mithilesh Mishra receives service to Hindi award
    2023-10-25 - Mithilesh Mishra, director of the Hindi and South Asian languages program in the Department of Linguistics, was honored for his contribution and commitment to Hindi. He received the Service to Hindi Award from the International Hindi Association, which focuses on fostering India's cultural heritage through the promotion and propagation of...
  • Antoinette Burton
    Antoinette Burton is Selected for Public Voices Fellowship
    2023-08-25 - Humanities Research Institute Director Antoinette Burton has been chosen to take part in the 2023–24 cohort of the University of Illinois System Public Voices Fellowship. This fellowship, led by The OpEd Project, is a distinctive opportunity that forms part of a national initiative aimed at enabling faculty to amplify their expertise in ways that can contribute to public discourse on critical...
  • Erin Riggs
    Illinois anthropology professor awarded NEH Fellowship
    2023-01-13 - Riggs’ research will result in an urban history of post-Partition Delhi told through maps, individual accounts and images of home spaces. This portrait of Delhi’s built landscape history challenges assumptions about the perpetual aid-dependency of refugee communities, the potential effectiveness of public housing and the mutability of national belonging. Riggs’ book project, “An Archaeology of...
  • Arabic Debate team with their medals
    UIUC Arabic Debate Team places 2nd nationally
    2022-10-16 -   Mabrook (Congratulations!) to Dr. Eman Saadah and the UIUC Arabic Debate team who competed in last week's Arabic Debate at Stanford University! Team member Suad Al Jawhari received first place at the national level for the AFL (Arabic as a Foreign Language) category, and the UIUC team was ranked # 2 nationally...
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    South Asian Librarian Mara Thacker gets 1st Annual Outstanding Outreach and Public Engagement Award
    2021-06-24 - As the Associate Professor and South Asian Studies Librarian, Mara has a wide range of responsibilities, including collection development, research, instruction, reference support, and committee work both within and outside the library. Her areas of expertise are Hinduism, Indic Languages, and South Asian Studies. Although outreach and public engagement are not officially part of Mara’s...
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    Professor Waïl Hassan named as CSAMES Director
    2020-12-02 - Executive Director Jerry Davila has announced that Professor Waïl Hassan has been appointed Director of the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies beginning January, 2021. Dr. Hassan is a Professor in the Program in Comparative and World Literature and the Department of English.  His scholarship, which focuses on modern Arabic literatures, includes the books Immigrant...
  • UISFL program awarded a grant to CSAMES for the 2020-2022 academic years
    2020-11-15 - Department of Education Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Languages (UISFL) program awarded to the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (CSAMES) for the 2020-2022 academic years.  The funding amount is $99,042 with cost-share contributions totaling $133,559 in Year 1 and $99,932 with matching funds of $128,494 in Year 2.   Through CSAMES’ administration, the...
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    Professor Avital Livny publishes Trust and the Islamic Advantage: Religious-Based Movements in Turkey and the Muslim World
    2020-08-15 - In this book Professor Livny presents a new argument for conceptualizing religion as both a personal belief system and collective identity.   For more information, go here.  
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    Dr. Ayse Ozcan makes advancements in Turkish language pedagogy
    2020-06-15 - Director and Lecturer of the Turkish Language Program Dr. Ayse Ozcan has been integrating U of I into the Mellon Collaborative Partners Project, which is carried out by Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning of the University of Chicago Language Center. Dr. Ozcan attended the 4-day ACTFL OPI (August 2018) and the Test-Design & Development Workshops (August 2019) to be one of the new...
  • Moussawi headshot and book cover
    Professor Ghassan Moussawi published Disruptive Situations: Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut. Temple University Press.
    2020-06-15 - Professor Ghassan Moussawi's new book is the first comprehensive study to employ the lens of queer lives in the Arab World to understand everyday life disruptions, conflicts, and violence. From Temple University Press. For more information and to order, go here.  
  • Colonial al-Andalus book cover
    Eric Calderwood received awards and recognitions for Colonial al-Andalus: Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2018)
    2020-05-30 - These awards include the 2019 L. Carl Brown AIMS Book Prize in North African Studies; Honorable Mention for the 2019 Nikki Keddie Book Award from the Middle East Studies Association; Silver Medal for the 2020 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies from the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame. The book has also been translated into Spanish as...

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