UIC Social Justice Initiative

Director

The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is engaged in a major initiative which will, in the coming year, launch several exciting new projects linking scholars and activists in Chicago and beyond. The UIC Social Justice Initiative includes a new Student Summer Institute on Social Justice, Democracy and Human Rights; active community engagement projects; and collaborations that connect the UIC community to work that is creating positive change and providing needed services from Haiti to Mexico to India. The Social Justice Initiative reflects UIC’s mission…(more)

 

Souls Journal

Editor-in-Chief

Souls is a quarterly interdisciplinary journal founded in 1999 and published by Taylor & Francis. It is housed in the African American Studies department of the University of Illinois at Chicago and edited by historian and activist Barbara Ransby…(more)

 

National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA)

President, 2016-2018

Established in 1977, the National Women’s Studies Association has as one of its primary objectives promoting and supporting the production and dissemination of knowledge about women and gender through teaching, learning, research and service in academic and other settings…(more)

 

UIC Gender and Women’s Studies Program

Professor

GWS is an interdisciplinary department founded on the notion that students learn by doing and engaging the world. So, we combine classroom work with experiential learning and civic engagement. Many of our students and faculty are involved in public policy work and social justice and arts initiatives that relate to gender justice, women’s well being and human rights and feminist ideals…(more)

 

Race and Class/ Institute for Race Relations publication (London)

Member, International Editorial Working Committee

Race and Class: A Journal on Race, Empire and Globalisation in published quarterly in London (UK) by the Institute of Race Relations and features essays at the cutting edge of the struggles for racial justice in Britain, Europe and globally….(more)

 

Social Justice, Power and Politics Book Series at University of North Carolina Press

Editorial Advisory Board

The Justice, Power, and Politics series intends to publish new works of history that explore questions of social justice and political power and struggles for justice in the twentieth century. The series will pursue–and bring into conversation with each other–books that use the lenses of justice, power, and politics to help readers better understand the evolution of the United States in the last century. The editors plan to include works by both junior and more seasoned scholars that will find common ground not only in their content but also by broadening the way we think about these issues…(more)

 

Scholars for Social Justice

Coordinating Committee

Scholars for Social Justice (SSJ) is a new formation of progressive scholars committed to promoting and fighting for a political agenda that insists on justice for all, especially those most vulnerable. This organization will mobilize the knowledge, skills and resources of scholars to battle the repressive attacks on marginalized communities, advancing instead an agenda of equality and justice. Issues impacting immigrants, women of color, people of color, LGBT, Muslims, women, differently-abled, indigenous and poor and working-class communities will be our priority. Moreover, SSJ will be especially attuned to using the experiences of these same communities to reimagine the academy, expanding who it serves, who has access to it and who shapes its mission.  While all are welcome to join SSJ, the leadership will be comprised primarily of those whose lives & communities sit at the intersection of the most recent attacks from the right…(more)