Professor and Director of the Latina and Latino Studies Program, Gerry Cadava and Dean Adrian Randolph discuss the meaning of diversity in the United States through the lens of Latino identity, as our nation approaches its 250th anniversary.
Geraldo Cadava is the Wender-Lewis Teaching and Research Professor in the department of history and the Latina and Latino Studies Program. He is also a Contributing Writer for The New Yorker, and co-editor in chief of Public Books, an online magazine of arts, culture, and ideas. Cadava is the author of The Hispanic Republican and Standing On Common Ground, and is now writing a third book called A Thousand Bridges, about Latino history over the past five hundred years.
Adrian Randolph is dean of the Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and Henry Wade Rogers Professor of the Humanities. Dean Randolph’s research focuses on the art and architecture of the medieval Renaissance Italy. He joined Northwestern in 2015 from Dartmouth College. There, he served as the associate dean of the faculty for the Arts and Humanities, chair of the Department of Art History, and director of the college’s Leslie Center for the Humanities.