Chicago Circle Research Articles

Toward an African Critical Orientation

ABSTRACT This essay proposes an African orientation to critical work. We begin by locating the need for postcolonial indigenous African bases for critical interventions in the idea of epistemic freedom articulated by African decolonial thinkers along with the postcolonial critique of Frankfurt School and Chicago circle critical theory. Next, we develop a basis for critical interventions in Bantu cosmology by drawing on Omedi Ochieng’s groundwork thesis and applied sociolinguistics. That basis, we argue, prioritizes relatedness and community wellbeing, and is therefore broader and distinct from the narrow focus on power and domination as they relate to individual subject envisioned in liberalism. We illustrate the heuristic potential of the African critical orientation for critical intercultural and critical rhetorical work by discussing the African Medical and Research Foundation’s (AMREF) Mukogodo community organizational development initiative and the #Rhodesmustfall protests of 2015–2016.

David Hume in Chicago: A Twentieth-Century Hoax

AbstractThis article alleges that two letters attributed to the philosopher David Hume (1711–1776) were forged in the twentieth century. The letters were first published in 1972 and 1973 by Michael Morrisroe, an assistant professor of English in the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle, after which they became monuments of conventional scholarship on Hume's life and writings. Both letters are cited without qualification by scholars of Hume's thought in dozens of publications, including Ernest Campbell Mossner's celebratedLife of David Hume(1980), and John Robertson's entry for Hume in theOxford Dictionary of National Biography(2004). This article reconstructs the history and transmission of Hume's extant letters and attempts to account for why the forgeries published by Morrisroe were accepted as genuine. It makes a systematic case against the authenticity of the letters, and focuses in particular on the question of whether Hume met the Jansenisthomme de lettresNoël-Antoine Pluche (1688–1761) and had access to his library, in Reims, in 1734. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications of the exposé for modern editorial scholarship and intellectual history.

Charles Bowden, Historian of the Future

Charles Bowden, Historian of the Future Bill Broyles (bio) and Bruce J. Dinges (bio) He bolted upright up in his sleeping bag as his fellow paddlers on the lower Colorado River canoe trip were already making breakfast. It was unusual for Chuck Bowden not to wake first, light the camp stove, and make coffee. For four days he had regaled his companions with details of a scandal that was about to hit the national headlines. Charles Keating and his Lincoln Savings and Loan had mishandled enough money ($3.4 billion) to shake U.S. financial markets and cause a cascade of bank failures. Bowden and his co-author, Michael Binstein, had dredged the records, staked out the courtrooms, stalked witnesses and attorneys, and interviewed the principals, including Keating—Chuck portrayed him as a fine fellow with whom to have dinner, but who would rob your bank blind if you let him. It was a story that Bowden had been living with for at least a year, sniffing through ledgers and shell companies like a bloodhound with a typewriter. Chuck wasn't one for typical greetings, like "Good morning" or "How did you sleep?" Instead, he launched into a monologue about whatever was on his mind. This morning's topic was a pre-dawn dream he had involving a nightclub, a band, and a lady wearing a black velvet evening gown who asked, "Do you want to touch my dress?" Chuck wanted to meet her. "Maybe tonight, if I'm lucky," he mused, before reaching for a cigarette. ________ Charles Clyde Bowden was born on the family's small farm near Joliet, Illinois, on July 20, 1945, and he died on August 31, 2014, in Las Cruces, New Mexico. In between, he led a full life, mostly following his own guide-star. At age three, the family moved to Chicago, where [End Page 7] Click for larger view View full resolution Charles Bowden as a graduate student at University of Wisconsin, about 1970. (Charles Bowden Papers, Wittliff Collections, Texas State University, San Marcos, box 101, folder 3. © Charles Clyde Bowden Literary Trust, Mary Martha Miles, Trustee.) [End Page 8] Chuck's father, Jude, worked for the Internal Revenue Service. His mother, Bernina "Bo," managed the household that included Chuck's older siblings George and Peggy (Peg). In 1957, when Chuck was twelve, the family relocated to Tucson, Arizona. Chuck attended Tucson High School and graduated from the University of Arizona, with a BA in history, in 1966. He enrolled in the graduate program at University of Wisconsin at Madison on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, earning a master's degree in American intellectual history in 1967. He went on Click for larger view View full resolution Charles Bowden's parents, Bo and Jude, with his brother George and sister Peggy, about 1944, Joliet, Illinois. (Charles Bowden Papers, Wittliff Collections, Texas State University, San Marcos, box 101, folder 3. © Charles Clyde Bowden Literary Trust, Mary Martha Miles, Trustee.) [End Page 9] Click for larger view View full resolution Charles Bowden, high school, Tucson, Arizona. (Charles Bowden Papers, Wittliff Collections, Texas State University, San Marcos, to be catalogued. © Charles Clyde Bowden Literary Trust, Mary Martha Miles, Trustee.) [End Page 10] to complete the course requirements for the PhD and worked on his doctoral dissertation, "Broke Bodies: A Look at 19th Century Notions about Health." In the meantime, he supplemented his income with a gig doing field research for the university archive before taking a job in 1970 as an American history instructor at the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle. He discovered that he hated classroom teaching and left before his contract expired. With few viable options Chuck and his wife, Zada Edgar, his high school sweetheart whom he married in 1968, returned to Tucson. Zada had earned her BA at Wisconsin and her MA at Smith College when the couple had lived in Ashfield, Massachusetts. Back in Tucson, Chuck took odd jobs while Zada obtained a JD at the University of Arizona before joining the Pima County Attorney's Office in 1976. He had submitted his dissertation to the University of Wisconsin history department, but the process dragged on with committee members coming and...

History, Pending

Tesconi-Warren collaborations began 50 years ago at the University of Illinois-Chicago, then abbreviated fondly as “Chicago Circle,” perhaps the only American institution of higher learning named for a traffic-control installation. We offered Foundations courses in teacher preparation programs of the College of Education, occasionally as a team. Our wives and children became friends. Van Cleve Morris was our dean and president of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA) around the time Tesconi brought Warren into the young association early in the 1970s. We jointly designed a PhD specialization in education policy studies and secured grants to support multicultural curriculum development and recruitment of American Indian students from Chicago's Native community. Later, we went separate ways. Our work became more administrative, Tesconi as dean of education and social services at the University of Vermont and American University and Warren in a similar capacity at Indiana University. This article relies extensively on personal memories, refreshed and fact-checked through AESA archives. Readers may find it fantastical and on some points mistaken. But the want of a history of AESA makes searching its past for coherence a stagger through patchy recollections. Believing is seeing. Although our association experiences have extended across 5 decades, the ones we emphasize here occurred in the 1970s and 1980s. All had rippling effects. Specifically, we cite Pride and Promise, an AESA-sponsored publication in 1984; enactment of standards for assessing Foundations courses and sequences in professional education programs; and the AESA campaign to establish what was originally called the Council of Learned Societies in Education, a bonding of Foundations-related associations subsequently renamed the Council for Social Foundations of Education (American Educational Studies Association, 2017, sec. 1978; Tozer, Gallegos, Henry, Greiner, & Price, 2011).An AESA narrative should be constructed as multiple stories with shifting centers of gravity, a design permitting transdisciplinary understanding of how diversity can grow as one without compromising unique traits and histories. Sturdy purposes, reinterpreted and reaffirmed, injected the powerful secret ingredients. The association has always been hydra-headed, but united nonetheless. Membership analyses would confirm whether the guesses have merit. AESA has changed without coherently pinpointing when, how, and why. It devised long-range plans but did not follow them religiously. The flexibility may well have proved to be an asset.

A Conversation with Samad Hedayat

A. Samad Hedayat was born on July 11, 1937, in Jahrom, Iran. He finished his undergraduate education in bioengineering with honors from the University of Tehran in 1962 and came to the U.S. to study statistics at Cornell, completing his Ph.D. in 1969. Just a few years later, in 1974, Samad accepted a full professor position at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle—now called University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)—and was named UIC Distinguished Professor in 2003. He was an early leader in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science and he remains a driving force to this day. Samad has also made substantial contributions in terms of research and service to the field, as evidenced by his numerous honors: he is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association and an honorary member of the Iranian Mathematical Society, among others. This conversation, which was conducted in September 2015 and May 2016, touches on Professor Hedayat’s career, and the past, present and future of statistics. In keeping with one of his great passions, it also offers an abundance of advice for students and junior faculty.

TU‐CD‐303‐00: In Memoriam of Warren Sinclair: Physics Applications for New Radiobiology

The Medical Physics and Radiation Protection communities lost one of their true pioneers in May, 2014 with the passing of Warren K. Sinclair, Ph.D. He received his Doctorate in Physics at the University of London, U.K. He was a fellow of the Institute of Physics and a Certified Health Physicist. After a number of posts at Hospitals and Universities in the U.K. and New Zealand, he became the Head, Physics Department at the M.D. Anderson Hospital, Houston, TX. He held a number of academic physics positions with the University of Texas, Austin at the main campus and at the Postgraduate School of Medicine, Houston. He later served as a Senior Biophysicist, Division Director, and then Associate Laboratory Director for Biomedical Division Director, and then Associate Laboratory Director for Biomedical and Environmental Research at the Argonne National Laboratory, IL. He had additional academic appointments at the University of California, Berkeley; Northern Illinois University; the University of Illinois (Chicago Circle Campus); and the University of Chicago.Warren was a charter member of the AAPM and a leader in many communities: President of the AAPM from 1960 to 1961 and the Journal Editor from 1964 to 1969, the 2nd President of the NCRP from 1977 to 1991, and the President of the Radiation Research Society from 1978 to 1979. His many awards included the William D. Coolidge Award in 1986. Even this barely scratches the surface of the many other organizations he served with and influenced including the ICRP, IOP, RSNA, SNM, and UNSCEAR. His research interests resulted in publications from 1948 to the 1990s in many aspects (physical and biological) of radiotherapy and the effects of ionizing radiation in general, leading to early definitions of RBE values for megavoltage radiotherapy as well as contributing to the development of the modern framework for radiation protection worldwide.Warren was not a retiring person and even after moving to NCRP President Emeritus status continued to provide advice and comments on publications and to mentor others until the time of his passing. Sadly, Warren's long‐time wife Joy passed away in December, 2014 but he is survived by his son Bruce and daughter Roslyn, 2 grandchildren and 4 great‐grandchildren.

TU‐CD‐303‐01: Memorial to Warren Sinclair ‐ Memorial Lecturer

The Medical Physics and Radiation Protection communities lost one of their true pioneers in May, 2014 with the passing of Warren K. Sinclair, Ph.D. He received his Doctorate in Physics at the University of London, U.K. He was a fellow of the Institute of Physics and a Certified Health Physicist. After a number of posts at Hospitals and Universities in the U.K. and New Zealand, he became the Head, Physics Department at the M.D. Anderson Hospital, Houston, TX. He held a number of academic physics positions with the University of Texas, Austin at the main campus and at the Postgraduate School of Medicine, Houston. He later served as a Senior Biophysicist, Division Director, and then Associate Laboratory Director for Biomedical Division Director, and then Associate Laboratory Director for Biomedical and Environmental Research at the Argonne National Laboratory, IL. He had additional academic appointments at the University of California, Berkeley; Northern Illinois University; the University of Illinois (Chicago Circle Campus); and the University of Chicago.Warren was a charter member of the AAPM and a leader in many communities: President of the AAPM from 1960 to 1961 and the Journal Editor from 1964 to 1969, the 2nd President of the NCRP from 1977 to 1991, and the President of the Radiation Research Society from 1978 to 1979. His many awards included the William D. Coolidge Award in 1986. Even this barely scratches the surface of the many other organizations he served with and influenced including the ICRP, IOP, RSNA, SNM, and UNSCEAR. His research interests resulted in publications from 1948 to the 1990s in many aspects (physical and biological) of radiotherapy and the effects of ionizing radiation in general, leading to early definitions of RBE values for megavoltage radiotherapy as well as contributing to the development of the modern framework for radiation protection worldwide.Warren was not a retiring person and even after moving to NCRP President Emeritus status continued to provide advice and comments on publications and to mentor others until the time of his passing. Sadly, Warren's long‐time wife Joy passed away in December, 2014 but he is survived by his son Bruce and daughter Roslyn, 2 grandchildren and 4 great‐grandchildren.

Picturing JQC’s Future

Like AI Blumstein, I came to criminology via operations research (OR) and, earlier, via electrical engineering, when I was engaged in designing a radio system for the Boston Police Department (Maitz and Waldron 1968; Maitz 1970). I subsequently became an OR analyst for the National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice (now NIJ) in 1969. After 3 years of seasoning, I started teaching criminal justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle (now UIC without the Circle1). There I taught inter alia undergraduate and graduate statistics and research methods. Having never taken them, I had to learn them on the fly. But like most engineers, I had a strong background in dealing with data, so it was not too problematic.2 But I brought different ways of looking at data (with an emphasis on the word look). Engineers and most hard scientists are taught to plot the data as they collect them. In physics we added weights to a spring and plotted the spring's length against the applied weight; we dropped an object and plotted the time it takes to fall different distances. It is through such exercises that we were able to demonstrate the linear relationship in the first example and the quadratic relationship in the second. In becoming a criminologist, however, I found that I had to deal with different types of data, for the most part based on random samples. The National Crime Survey (NCS), and its successor, the National Crime Victimization Survey (NVCS), were based on samples, as were a number of other important data sets. I set out to learn the methods of dealing with

In Search of a Golden Bird upon a Bough of Memory

In Search of a Golden Bird upon a Bough of Memory Mel Livatino (bio) I once had a teacher of literature who, most of the semester, put me in mind of a frightened angel. Years later, remembering his spare body and reflective presence, I thought of Yeats’s golden bird upon a golden bough. I wasn’t alone in such aviary comparisons. Nearly fifty years after being his student, the noted psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi said this teacher reminded him of a giant crane or a great blue heron. Though I could not know it at the time, this contemplative birdlike man would be the most extraordinary teacher I ever had. The circumstances for such an encounter were highly improbable. Nothing about the school suggested such a teacher. The newly opened, densely urban campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago, known locally as Chicago Circle, hadn’t even been a four-year school until a few days earlier but was a two-year campus located on a narrow strip of concrete jutting out seven-eighths of a mile into Lake Michigan. Navy Pier, it was called then, after decades of use in commercial shipping; later it was a hastily built campus for the U.S. Navy during the Second World War. To its commuter students from 1946 through 1964, it was simply the Pier: a seemingly unending tunnel of battleship-gray classrooms that looked more like a bleak factory than a college campus. In February 1965 the campus shifted from Navy Pier to a nearly mile-square plot of urban-renewal land that had been forcibly wrenched from its largely Italian-American residents. Their homes and stores were demolished, and a handful of university buildings was soon erected. The buildings were identical pods: two stories of pebble-filled concrete with narrow vertical slits for windows. The classrooms were identical: thirty-two black wrought-iron chair-desks bolted to the floor in four rows. To many people these buildings resembled the nearby Cook County Jail, not a college. That semester the new campus was a chaos of mud, debris, and construction. Ornery orange machines were moving, [End Page 223] hauling, lifting, erecting all day every day. The roar of their exhaust pipes was the cacophony of our spheres. It was hardly the place to encounter an angel, a crane, a heron, or Yeats’s golden bird. On a cold morning in late February I was sitting in a second-floor classroom of one of these interchangeable pods when a tall thin man wearing a navy-blue overcoat, gray fedora, brownish suit, white shirt, and necktie came into the room. He put his satchel on the desk, pulled out a syllabus for English 256, American literature from 1865 to the present, and announced he was James Stronks. He was forty-four years old then, and I was twenty-four. I was struck by this man’s simple, spare elegance. His brow was high and narrow; his sandy hair, thinning; his eyes, blue, direct, and keen; his body, tall, lean, erect, and angular. He seemed stripped to the bone—reserved, formal, professional—not like an IBM salesman, but like a monk dressed in a suit. What I most noticed that first day, however, was his great interiority. It was as if he had taken only as much body as necessary to house being and knowing. Yet on that first day, and for some time to come, I did not think of Stronks as a great teacher. I was used to a different kind of excellence, teaching that was more present and rational. Stronks seemed too hesitant, too distant, too interior to be a great teacher. I had come from five and a half years (1959–1964) as a part-time student at Wright Junior College, one of Chicago’s City Colleges—and had one full-time semester on the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois. In both places I had been taught by superb teachers. At Wright Sid Berman paced up and down the aisles of our classroom in a bow tie and rolled-up sleeves, peppering us with one penetrating question after another about the texts for that semester: Ortega y...

First portion of the Chicago's Circle Line opens [Transportation Systems

First portion of the Chicago's Circle Line opens [Transportation Systems

Footnotes on a Friendship, February 2005

Sometime in February of 19851 took my first public transportation in Chicago. For a native of the little village of Mahnomen, Minnesota, it was a hellish day. I knew the train I boarded was supposed to take me within walking distance of the Chicago Circle campus, but it could have left me in Skokie, or Greenland for that matter, and I would not have been the wiser. I had been warned?repeatedly?not to talk to anyone. This talking to, smiling at, acknowledging people had already gotten me into several uncomfortable spots. The thrill of my city so journ at the Newberry Library had begun to wear off. The all-night traffic beneath my Chestnut Street apartment, my inability to keep wheels handy because of the astronomical parking fees, the ano nymity of all the faces, and my hunger for open spaces all left me feeling tense, stranded, homesick. But the gnawing in my stomach on this particular day came mostly from nervousness. I was this little imposter nobody, presum ing the role of an academic. I had taken the audacious and irretriev able step of announcing that I was going to write my dissertation on the work of Gerald Vizenor. Now here I was on my way to meet the woman who was the Vizenor expert, the scholar who had read all his work, had compiled a long, detailed bibliography, and had written an analysis of everything from his haiku to his trickster fiction. I don t remember what reassuring chant I must have repeated under my breath to keep myself moving toward her office that day. Maybe it was rent stipend, rent stipend, rent stipend.

My Kind of Town

My Kind of Town

Providing Outsourced Internet Services to a Government Agency

Nancy John received her MLS from UCLA in Los Angeles, California in 1973. After working as a cataloguer at the National Gallery of Art Library, she was employed by the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle Library as Catalogue Librarian and Assistant Professor. She was appointed Manager of Library Systems at the University of Illinois at Chicago University Library in 1987, a position she still holds; and is also its Assistant University Librarian since 1980. Ms John has written, taught and lectured on a wide variety of topics including bibliographic control, the Internet, librarians' ethics, twinning of libraries, technical services, computer centres and libraries, art libraries, and copyright. She was a member of the Standing Committee on Cataloguing, 1987-1995; Chair of the Coordinating Board of Bibliographic Control, 1989-1993; member of the Professional Board from 1989 until 1993; and Chair of the Committee on Copyright Issues, 1991-1993. Ms John was elected to the Executive Board of IFLA in 1997, and is IFLA's Second Vice- President. She may be contacted at the University of Illinois at Chicago, University Library, Box 8198 m/c 234, Chicago, Illinois 60690, USA (fax: +(1-312) 4130424; e-mail: nrj@uic.edu).

Black Radical Congress: Summary of Workshop Sessions June 19–21, 1998 University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago Circle Center

Black Radical Congress: Summary of Workshop Sessions June 19–21, 1998 University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago Circle Center

Trying to Consider Cancer Therapy Alternatives, Assessors of Technology Appear to Come Up Short

WHEN IT COMES to attempts to assess and evaluate the effectiveness of unconventional methods of treating cancer, there appears to be no meeting of minds, whether the subject be a particular treatment or the methods of assessing it. The latest attempt, a massive 3-year effort by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), seems doomed even before it appears in print. Better no report at all than this draft, Frank D. Wiewel of People Against Cancer told an OTA advisory panel at an unusual public hearing on the report. Wiewel was one of a group who pushed Congress into getting the OTA to take a look at alternative cancer therapies. Now he says he's sorry he made the effort. Although Wiewel was one of the more vociferous critics of the draft, even relatively quiet-spoken academicians, such as campus historian Patricia Spain Ward of the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, told

High-Tech Center Planned for Illinois

The University of Illinois is moving along with plans to build a major new high-tech in DuPage County, just west of Chicago. The Illinois Board of Higher Education has recommended $25 million in state funds to establish the campus and it appears likely that the legislature will go along with the recommendation. According to project director Irving F. Miller (who is also head of the chemical engineering department at UTs Chicago Circle campus), the new center should be in operation by the fall of 1993. DuPage County officials boast that the county is among the fastest growing industrial/technological areas in the U.S. Its population grew from about 450,000 in 1970 to 660,000 in 1980 and is projected to reach 920,000 by 2005. ranks among the top 10 counties in the U.S. in terms of income and educational levels. Moreover, Miller points out, It has Argonne National Laboratory at one end and Fermilab at ...

Persistence to Graduate Education. Ethington C, Smart J (University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Chicago, IL), Research in Higher Education 24:287-302, 1986.

Persistence to Graduate Education. Ethington C, Smart J (University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Chicago, IL), Research in Higher Education 24:287-302, 1986.

3: One Field, Many Views: Competing Theories of International Migration

3: One Field, Many Views: Competing Theories of International Migration

The Nature of Psychological Explanation.

In exploring the nature of psychological explanation, this book looks at how psychologists theorize about the human ability to calculate, to speak a language and the like. It shows how good theorizing explains or tries to explain such abilities as perception and cognition. It recasts the familiar explanations of intelligence and cognitive capacity as put forward by philosophers such as Fodor, Dennett, and others in terms of a theory of explanation that makes established doctrine more intelligible to professionals and their students.In particular, the book shows that vestigial adherence to the positivists' D-N model has distorted the view of philosophers of science about what psychologists (and biologists) do and has masked the real nature of explanation. Major sections in the book cover Analysis and Subsumption; Functional Analysis; Understanding Cognitive Capacities; and Historical Reflections.Robert Cummins is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle. A Bradford Book.

Research in Social Work

Journal Article Research in Social Work Get access Research in Social Work. By William J. Reid and Audrey D. Smith. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981. 417 pp. $20.00 Sidney E. Zimbalist Sidney E. Zimbalist Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois, Chicago Circle Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 28, Issue 2, March-April 1983, Page 166, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/28.2.166 Published: 01 March 1983