2025-01-23
- Congratulations to Pharah Green on being named a Humanities in Action Spring 2025 Scholar. Pharah is a LAS Global Studies freshman and we are incredibly proud and excited for the commitment she is on making positive impact. With experience coordinating youth programs through nonprofits, Pharah has worked to provide inner-city youth with resources ranging from cultural cooking classes to...
- 2023-11-17 - Dayna is interning at a major European think tank in Paris. Her weekly duties consist of writing news briefs on various topics related to international organizations and member States of the European Union. Specifically, she covers Malta, Cyprus, and Ireland. Additionally, she is tasked with updating the foundation’s country fact sheets for each of these countries. Dayna also writes briefing...
2023-05-02 - Dr. Charles Fogelman, Teaching Assistant Professor in the LAS Global Studies Program, has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad grant to spend six months conducting qualitative research in Lesotho, from June until December 2023. Dr. Fogelman's project, titled "Developing the Mountain Kingdom's Landscapes: Poverty Alleviation, Land, and Horticulture in Lesotho," will focus on...
2023-04-20 - Natalie Klunke is a first-year student in Global Studies and a recipient of the Foreign Languages and Area Studies Fellowship. She will combine her Swahili language studies with an area studies focus in South Africa. Congratulations Natalie!
2023-04-17 - In episode 5 of season 3 of Our Global Campus Podcast, Global Studies major, Stephanie (Steph) Lepak, shares how her passion met a problem that subsequently revealed her purpose.- 2023-03-03 - Please go and visit an art exhibit curated by Callie Goeing a Global Studies major. The exhibit is to elevate adoptee voices and stories.
2023-01-26 - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumna Brittney Nadler recently was awarded a Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship. Funded by the U.S. Department of State and administered by Howard University, the Pickering Fellowship supports individuals who seek careers in the State Department’s Foreign Service. Nadler was among 45...- 2022-12-15 - LAS Global Studies is proud to announce the following students have been awarded scholarships to support their spring study abroad experience! Diane McGrath 2022 Scholarship Awardees Maya Moucharrafie Jasmine Escalante Dasha Raguimov Julia Arciola Catherine C. and Bruce A. Bastian Scholarship Awardees Maya Moucharrafie Shallom Nnabuihe Dasha...
2022-10-07 - Two University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign juniors are among 100 students nationwide awarded the inaugural Obama-Chesky Scholarship for Public Service, also known as Voyager Scholarships. Graphic by Fred Zwicky https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/621500269- 2022-10-03 - Language skills put to use among local immigrant communities during pandemic: Spanish students work with nonprofits to help people navigate COVID-19 https://las.illinois.edu/news/2022-03-28/language-skills-put-use-among-local-immigrant-communities-during-...
- 2022-09-12 - All of our teaching staff were ranked as excellent instructors for their courses in the Spring of 2022. Congratulations to Dr. Valeria Bonatti (GLBL 340), Dr. Charles Fogelman (GLBL 270, GLBL 296, 450), and Dr. David Schrag (GLBL 220, GLBL 260), and Helaine Silverman (GLBL 296).
2022-07-08 - The Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA) invites you to an International Affairs and Public Policy Graduate School Fair July 21, 2022 10:00am - 12:45pm ET Online Register today at ...- 2022-05-19 - LAS Global Studies mourns the sudden loss of Professor Dara Goldman, professor of Spanish and director of the Program in Jewish Culture and Society. Professor Goldman taught many of our majors in her classes, and her generosity with students and faculty made her an integral member of the scholarly network that sustains our interdisciplinary program. We are sending our heartfelt...
- 2022-03-14 - All of our teaching staff were ranked as excellent instructors for their courses in the Spring of 2022. Congratulations to Dr. Timothy Wedig (GLBL 100), Valeria Bonatti (GLBL 240, GLBL 440), Dr. Charles Fogelman (GLBL 100, GLBL 199), Malcolm Jamal (GLBL 225), and David Schrag (GLBL 220, GLBL 296), and Amy Williams (GLBL 296).
2022-03-08 - Event Type Film Screening Sponsor Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Virtual Date; Time Mar 10, 2022 7:00 pm Speaker Dr. Tim Wedig, Associate...