Pollyanna Rhee (Landscape Architecture) and John Levi Barnard (English/Comparative and World Literature) are co-directors of the HRI 2024-25 Research Cluster “Environmental Humanities.” Professor Rhee recently answered questions about the group and the benefits of working collaboratively. HRI Research Cluster funds support the efforts of scholars with shared interests to explore subjects or problems which they […]

Eugene M. Avrutin (Tobor Family Endowed Professor of Modern European Jewish History) and Valeria Sobol (Department Head and Professor, Slavic Languages & Literatures) are co-directors of the HRI Research Cluster “Russia and the Global Color Line.” They recently answered questions about their work and what it means to collaborate. HRI Research Cluster funds support the […]

The research cluster Critical Interventions in Labor Studies is hosting a yearlong reading group to consider the purpose and pedagogy of labor education, the historical relationship of labor education and higher education, and how labor education intersects with gender studies, Black, Latinx, Asian, and Native American and global studies. To request the readings, email woodiii2@illinois.edu. […]