Professor Waïl S. Hassan receives the John A. and Grace W. Nicholson Professorship

Congratulations to Professor Waïl S. Hassan for receiving the John A. and Grace W. Nicholson Professorship. This professorship aims to help further the study of humanities, with special preference to literature and the history of philosophy. Professor Hassan studies Modern Arabic, Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone literatures.

The professorship originated from the John A. Nicholson and Grace W. Nicholson Endowment Fund, established in 1999, which was a gift of Grace W. Nicholson (1906-1998) who pursued undergraduate studies in the College of LAS, and professor emeritus John A. Nicholson (1891-1986), who taught in the Department of Philosophy at U of I for 33 years.