2024-11-08 - Hello dear IGI community! My name is Gisela Sin, and I am the IGI acting Executive Director for the 24-25 academic year. I want to thank everybody at IGI, and its centers and programs as you have all been very helpful in my transition to this new role. I’ll be serving in this capacity while Jerry Dávila is spending the year as a Presidential Fellow at  the Office of the President of...

2024-11-08 - We had a chance to interview Rachel Brichta (MA,'24, REEES). Brichta is chief administrator for the International Institute at the University of Michigan. Question: I’ve read on your website that you are “responsible for long-range planning, strategic operations, financial management, and human resources for the institute and its 17 centers and programs,” which...

2024-11-08 - This year, I joined IGI as the first Faculty Director of South Asian Studies (SAS). Since 1983, South Asian studies has been housed within the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (CSAMES). Recently, interest and capacity on campus has grown in both regions. My job, therefore, consists of two equally important parts: increasing South Asian visibility and engagement on campus and...

2024-10-24 - The Illinois Scholars at Risk (ISAR) Program welcomes people from around the world. The program provides sanctuary and assistance to scholars, researchers, practitioners, and artists who face severe threats at home. The 2024-2025 cohort has welcomed 10 scholars to campus from eight countries who are hosted by multiple colleges across the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. ISAR not only...

2024-10-18 - Kainen Bell (current PhD student, Information Sciences) Kainen Bell, awardee of the Global Policy Fellowship 2024 and affiliate of the Center for Global studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies, discussed his education and work regarding surveillance technologies. I am a PhD student in the School of...

2024-10-18 - In May of 2023 a member of the European Union Center interviewed Ben Nathan, then a student in their MA program (https://shorturl.at/qSrle). He spoke about his happiness in returning to campus after the pandemic, interviewing US Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovich, and his plans to one day becoming a practicing lawyer with an emphasis on international law. Recently, Ben told...

2024-10-18 - Please note that Kofi Bazzell-Smith is a Future Faculty Fellow at the Rochester Institute of Technology College of Art and Design.   Kofi Bazzell-Smith is an artist with a passion for manga, a style of Japanese comics, and a professional boxer. He has participated in the 2023 Future Faculty Career Exploration Program held at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. Examples of...

2024-10-18 - Marilia Corrêa (PhD, ’19, history; former affiliate of CLACS) When asked to list the most important skills Dr. Corrêa learned from her time at the University of Illinois, she responded, “that is difficult to answer in only a few sentences. I learned how to be an academic and a historian at Illinois. Starting from the simplest skills, I learned how to be a student at Illinois...

2024-06-17 - Illinois Alumni magazine talked to Szremski about taking students to Peru on a summer field trip where they dig in the western slopes of the Andes mountains. Click https://www.illinoisalumnimagazine.org/illinoisalumni/summer_2024/MobilePagedArticle.action?articleId=1983116#articleId1983116 to read more about what they discovered.

2024-06-06 - President Tim Killeen writes, "I am excited to announce the selection of Jerry Dávila and Pedro Hallal for the Presidential Fellows Program. This prestigious program supports faculty members from our three universities whose interests align with one or more of the system-wide strategic...

2024-03-07 - To learn about the Brasillinois initiative, read the press release here: https://emails.uofi.uillinois.edu/newsletter/60/311198260.html and more information here: https://www.uillinois.edu/about/international_partnerships/brasillinois  

2024-02-29 - What in the world is a FLAS Fellowship? The IGI Spring e-newsletter brings news of significant achievements by staff, students, and faculty, as well as well-deserved recognition of their efforts. This note takes a closer look at one of the major building blocks of international studies at UIUC: the FLAS Fellowship.  FLAS stands for Foreign Language and Area Studies...

2024-02-13 - On February 28, Willie J. Mitchell, Principal Information Technologies Specialist for Applied Technologies for Learning in the Arts & Sciences, was awarded the LAS Academic Professional Award. Since 2014, Will has been the ATLAS Zone Manager for the following units and departments: Asian Educational Media Service, ATLAS Application Reporting Web, the Center for African Studies, the Center...

2024-02-13 - AZADEH AGHIGHI received her Ph.D. in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures with a specialization in Islamic Studies and is currently a Lecturer in Persian Language and Director of the Persian Studies Program, Dept. of Linguistics. Dr. Aghigi has taught courses on Islam as well as Arabic and Persian languages at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Could you...

2024-01-22 - On  Dec. 8, 2023, Illinois high school students who were awarded first place or honorable mention in the 2023-24 High School Translation Competition gathered at the Italian Cultural Institute in Chicago to celebrate their achievement. The event was sponsored by the European Union Center, a member of the Illinois Global Institute, and welcomed Thomas Botzios, Consul General of Italy in...