Arts & Humanities

Over the last two decades, the Weinberg College-housed Program in Environmental Policy and Culture (EPC) at Northwestern has embraced the humanities and social sciences and cultivated a new generation of environmental stewards. Growing up in Portland, Oregon, Fiona Lenth describes her...

bree gant is in her studio in Locy Hall writing. Her words flow horizontally across the page, wrapping left to right down the page. Like movements in a dance sequence, the word order changes slightly with each repetition, creating subtle...

Junta Nakai knows exactly how he got here. Here, is his position as the global vice president at Databricks, a San Francisco-based data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) company. The globe’s sixth-largest startup, Databricks, was recently valued at $62 billion. And how...

Rachel Jamison Webster's book Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family (Henry Holt, March 2023)—a book of creative nonfiction that explores ancestry, race, gender, and justice in American history - was chosen as a Best Book of...

Throughout its 50 years, Northwestern University’s American Studies Program has been a lively example of interdisciplinary study, intellectual curiosity, and scholarly camaraderie. Carl Smith would love to cite some grand, elaborate plan behind the formation of Northwestern University’s American Studies Program...

Please welcome the 29 new faculty of Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences for the academic year of 2024-2025! Marta Agüero Guerra Assistant Professor of Instruction PhD institution: University of New York University of Iowa and Universidad de Salamanca Previous title and institution: Lecturer...

Co-curated by Northwestern’s Bill Savage, new exhibit pays tribute to legendary columnist Mike Royko and the heyday of print Over a career spanning three decades, Mike Royko penned over 7,500 columns for Chicagoans, and, later, a national audience. He won a...

The innovative Ask a Wildcat tool for students has won the Silver Circle of Excellence award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) in the Engagement in the Volunteer Engagement category. This accolade underscores the university's commitment to fostering robust student-alumni...

Award honors tenured faculty for research excellence Northwestern University professor Rebecca Zorach is a recipient of the 19th annual Dorothy Ann and Clarence L. Ver Steeg Distinguished Research Fellowship Award. The Ver Steeg Fellowship supports the research of a tenured Northwestern faculty member whose...

arts &Program provides $35,000 for graduate studies in the arts, humanities and social sciences Abhi Nimmagadda, a third-year student at Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences has been awarded a $35,000 Beinecke Scholarship to pursue graduate studies in South Asian Studies. He is the...