Have you ever brought your students to Hull-House? Would you like to learn how you might integrate the museum into your teaching?

Apply now for a one-week workshop, June 9-13, 2025, during which you’ll learn how the museum can support the development of your UIC teaching. This opportunity is open to all those who teach at UIC, across all disciplines, including faculty, instructors, adjuncts, and graduate students.

STIPEND

Each Hull-House Faculty Fellow will receive $1,500 to support their attendance at the workshop and their attendance at five Friday lunch seminars in the 2025-2026 academic year.

SCHEDULE

The week-long summer workshop will be loosely organized around five topics with some flexibility based upon the disciplinary backgrounds and pedagogical interests of the selected fifteen Hull-House Faculty Fellows. The workshop will be led by Hull-House Director Liesl Olson, Associate Director Matthew Randle-Bent, Curator Ross Jordan and Education Manager Nadia Maragha. UIC Professors Norma Claire Moruzzi (Gender & Women’s Studies, Political Science, History), Adam Goodman (Latin American and Latino Studies & History), and Kellee Warren (Special Collections Librarian) will also lead discussions informed by their deep expertise with Hull-House and its archive and histories. Topics may include:

1. Hull-House Histories and Contestations
   The Progressive Era and Social Reform Movement; and the ideals and limitations of Jane Addams, including how she learned from journalist and activist Ida. B. Wells.

2. The Arts at Hull-House

   How arts programs at Hull-House developed in response to industrialization and exploitative factory conditions. Hull-House’s Labor Museum, theatre programs, and the Hull-House Kilns.

3. Gender & Sexuality
   Hull-House as a site of feminist organizing, non-normative gender relationships, and women’s activism, as well as theoretical arguments that have developed in conjunction with Hull-House histories.

4. Immigration Then and Now

   Immigration history and policy from the turn of the century through the present, with a focus on the demographic changes of Chicago’s West Side.

5. Chicago’s West Side

   Urban planning and the Hull-House settlement during Chicago’s period of “urban renewal,” when the city built the new campus of the University of Illinois-Chicago.

The workshop will include an engagement with archival collections related to Hull-House at Daley Library. We will also visit the vast Hull-House collection of artifacts, artwork, furniture, and historical objects stored at Mana Contemporary, and take a walking tour of Pilsen.

REQUIREMENTS

A cohort of fifteen Hull-House Faculty Fellows will be selected and will be provided a stipend to attend a summer 2025 week-long workshop. Hull-House Faculty Fellows are required to attend every day of the workshop, Monday, June 9 through Friday, June 13, 2025, and five lunchtime seminars during the 2025-2026 academic year. These lunchtime seminars will provide Hull-House Faculty Fellows with the opportunity to present syllabi-in-progress, discussion prompts, project assignments, and other curricular materials in order to get input from colleagues. Hull-House Faculty Fellows will be expected to produce a new syllabus, to be taught either in either spring or fall of 2026.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

The application consists of a short narrative explaining your curricular plans, and a 2–3-page CV due March 17th. If accepted, we will also require a letter from your department head approving your development of a new syllabus.  

Applicants will be notified of their acceptance by April 1 and be expected to accept or decline by April 15. Questions about the program can be directed to jahh@UIC.edu . 

This project has been generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.