Faculty Awards

Please join us in celebrating AAS Faculty Member Junaid Rana and Graduate Student Anirban Mukhopadhyay on their acceptance into the 2026-27 HRI Fellowship. Rana and Mukhopadhyay are joining a cohort of seven faculty members and seven graduate students from all across the UIUC campus to explore the...

Mellon Foundation awards Sawyer Seminar grant to Illinois faculty At Risk U will examine challenges to democracy and academic freedom in U.S. universitiesA multi-disciplinary team of faculty researchers from the University of Illinois has been awarded a Sawyer Seminar...

AAS is thrilled to announce that Dr. Soo Ah Kwon is a recipient of this year's Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award. The College of LAS has selected 19 professors, graduate students, lecturers, and advisors as recipients of this year's awards, and it is no surprise to see Kwon's name among...

Professor Junaid Rana recently released his newest publication: The Anthropology of White Supremacy: A Reader. This collection of twenty-four essays gives readers a thoughtful analysis of not only how anthropology can better help us understand white supremacy, but it provides insight...

Dr. Maryam Kashani (AAS/GWS) has been named a Helen Corley Petit Scholar for the 2024-25 academic year. The award is granted to up to seven newly tenured faculty members and is based on excellence in research and teaching.

Congratulations to Susan Koshy for her recent receipt of a faculty fellowship with the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation. From OVCRI: "Faculty Fellows inform OVCRI thinking and policy-making while simultaneously learning about campus-level research administration and...

Congratulations to these AAS faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, and teaching assistants who were ranked as excellent by their students in the Spring 2021 semester! Results are based off of end-of-semester ICES reviews. Eman Ghanayem, Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow | AAS 300 Akil Guruparan...

Congratulations to these AAS faculty members and teaching assistants who were ranked as excellent by their students in the Fall 2019 semester! Results are based off of end-of-semester ICES reviews. Simon Boonsripaisal (TA) - AAS 100 Fiona Ngo - AAS 120 A. Naomi Paik - AAS 200, AAS 370 Doo Jae...

  Congratulations to these AAS faculty members and TAs who were ranked as excellent by their students in the Spring 2019 semester! Maryam Kashani — AAS 365 Sang Lee (TA) — AAS 100 Fiona Ngo — AAS 315 Junaid Rana — AAS 300 Merin Thomas (TA) — AAS 100 These results were based on end-of...