Young Richard Kim, Associate Profess and Head of Classics and Mediterranean Studies, was awarded a grant under the University of Illinois System’s second Presidential Initiative: Expanding the Impact of the Arts and the…
Young Richard Kim, associate professor and head of Classics and Mediterranean Studies and associate professor of History, recently published an op-ed piece with Newsweek. In it he writes about multilingualism in American culture…
Young Richard Kim, associate professor and Head of Classics and Mediterranean Studies, joined WBEZ’s “Reset” for a discussion about the origin of the model minority myth and how it impacted Asian Americans growing…
Mark your calendars for April 30th and the opening (via livestream) of a new adaptation of Plautus’s Casina by UIC Classical Studies major Luana Davila! Additional details coming soon. Promotional Flyer Produced by Columbia…
The Cambridge Companion to the Council of Nicaea, edited by Young Kim, Associate Professor and Head of Classics and Mediterranean Studies, was released in January 2021 by Cambridge University Press. Part of the…
A new op-ed by Young Richard Kim, associate professor and head of Classics and Mediterranean Studies and associate professor of History, in the New York Daily News explores the importance of theater for…
Rumi Venkatesh received the Award for Highest Distinction for her project “Claiming Roots: A Reclamation of Jewish Identity in Judah Halevi’s Kuzari” at the Fall 2020 Honors College Research Symposium. This project was…
Zinon Papakonstantinou, Professor of Classics, has published a new book, Cursing for Justice: Magic, Disputes, and the Lawcourts in Classical Athens (Franz Steiner Verlag: Stuttgart, 2021). From the publisher: This book is a…
Classical Studies major and Arabic minor Luana was recently featured as part of the Language and Culture Learning Center’s “UIC Language StorieS” project. She shared how her experiences growing up in a multi-cultural…
A Q&A with Young Kim, Associate Professor and Head of Classics and Mediterranean Studies, was featured in the American Historical Association’s Perspectives on History as part of a member spotlight series. Read the article online.
