Arts & Humanities

Congratulations to the 2021-2022 Faculty and Administrator Honorees at Weinberg College. The Associated Student Government (ASG) collects nominations for the annual Faculty & Administrator Honor Roll from the Northwestern University undergraduate student body. In the past year, over 100 students...

Historian Deborah Cohen’s book Last Call at the Hotel Imperial has been chosen as one of The New Yorker's best books of 2022. The book explores the lives of four journalists who reported from Europe and Asia during the lead-up to...

Ethan Yang he/him Class of 2023 Arch Programs Bio&Chem EXCEL; Bridge 2; Peer Mentoring Major/Minor Neuroscience & Psychology Why did you decide to participate in Arch? As a FGLI student coming into a prestigious competitive university such as Northwestern, I knew I wasn’t on the same playing field...

History Professor Kate Masur's  book Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction has won the American Historical Association's Littleton-Griswold Prize as the best book on American law and society, broadly defined. Masur’s work details the events...

Caroline Kent, Assistant Professor in Weinberg College's Department of Art, Theory, and Practice, was recently awarded The Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize by The Studio Museum in Harlem. According to The Studio Museum in Harlem, “The Wein Prize recognizes and honors...

Andres Villalobos he/him Class of 2025 Arch Program Bio&ChemEXCEL 2021 Major Neuroscience Why did you decide to participate in Arch? I was a ball of nerves coming into Northwestern, and I began to look for any resources that could make the transition from my small town to the...

In 2021, Northwestern launched the Racial Equity and Community Partnership grants program, a set of grants focused on supporting ideas that work toward making our communities more equitable. “Our first year of grant-funded projects is already making a positive impact in communities...

During the week of July 25, 28 members of Northwestern’s faculty convened in Evanston’s Hardin Hall for the first ever Summer Writing Retreat, a program focused on creating dedicated time for professors to catch up on work left incomplete due...

Natasha Trethewey, Weinberg Board of Trustees Professor of English and renowned poet has been elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in recognition of extraordinary accomplishments in her field. Pulitzer Prize-winner Natasha Trethewey served two terms as the 19th Poet...

One Book One Northwestern has chosen How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with The History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith as the selection for the 2022-2023 One Book. How the World is Passed explores the history of slavery through its discussion of various...