Barbara M. Posadas, professor of history, will receive the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award of the Association for Asian American Studies at the association’s annual meeting in Chicago on April 19.
Posadas has been a leader in the fields of U.S. immigration and ethnicity, U.S. women and the history of Chicago. A pioneering specialist in Filipino American labor and women’s history – especially the history of Filipino Americans in the Midwest – she is the author of “The Filipino Americans” and articles in such publications as Labor History, Amerasia and the Journal of American Ethnic History as well as in various scholarly collections.
She has held a Senior Fulbright Research Award at the Asia Center of the University of the Philippines, a post-doctoral fellowship at the Asian American Studies Center at UCLA and an NEH Summer Research Grant. In addition, she has been a leader in organizing within the community and the professions.
Posadas received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University and has been at NIU since 1974. She served as a member of the Organization of American Historians’ Committee on the Status of Minority History and Minority Historians from 1996-1999, chaired that committee in 1998, and also served as a director of the Urban History Association, a trustee of the Filipino American National Historical Society, and president of the Illinois State Historical Society.
She is currently vice president/president-elect of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society and will serve as the society’s president in 2009-12.
BusinessWeek’s 2008 ranking of best undergraduate business schools continues to place the NIU College of Business within an elite group of b-schools nationwide.
The college was ranked 81st nationally out of an elite group of 96 elite business schools from across the country. Of the 540 AACSB-accredited business colleges worldwide, 127 were invited to participate in the BusinessWeek ranking survey.
NIU is one of only three Illinois schools to be included in BusinessWeek’s short list this year, and NIU ranks ahead of schools such as the University of Iowa (84) and Loyola-Chicago (91).