Arts & Humanities

Timothy Earle, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology, has been awarded the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest honor in his field. According to their website, the Lifetime Achievement Award is conferred to “an archaeologist for...

Mary Pattillo, Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and chair of the Department of African American Studies, has been listed as one of Better magazine’s 2023 Top 10 of Chicago’s Black Women of Impact. The list celebrates women who “have risen to...

Two faculty in Weinberg College have been awarded Fellowship grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH): Jennifer Lackey and Dassia Posner. The awards are part of $28.1 million in grants provided by the NEH for 204 humanities projects across...

Dyan Elliott, Peter B. Ritzma Professor of the Humanities and professor of history, has won the Medieval Academy of America’s Haskins Medal for her 2020 book, The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy​. The Haskins Medal is awarded annually...

Linda Teplin, affiliated faculty in the department of sociology, has been selected as 2022 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the largest general scientific society in the world. Teplin is vice chair for research in the Department of...

Three undergraduate students in Weinberg College have been presented with Fletcher Awards from Northwestern’s Office of Undergraduate Research. Elizabeth Dudley ’24, Elena Housteau ’24, and Sophia Huang ’25 each received a $250 prize, funded by the Fletcher Family Foundation, for outstanding work in research. For...

Edward Muir, of the Department of History and Department of French and Italian, has begun his term as the 139th president of the American Historical Association, the flagship organization for historians in the United States. Muir is the Clarence L. Ver...

Gisely Torres she/her Class of 2023 Arch Programs Bio&Chem EXCEL, NU Bioscientist, Bridge 2, Peer Mentoring Major/Minor Global Health and Latino/a Studies on pre-med track Why did you decide to participate in Arch? I decided to participate in Arch because it seemed like this was my best shot...

Denise Bouras has been named a 2023 recipient of the The Alumnae of Northwestern University’s Award for Curriculum Innovation. Bouras is an associate professor of instruction in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Jeremy...

Northwestern University is celebrating a decade-long partnership with the Posse Foundation's Los Angeles chapter, which brings a new cohort of Southern California-based students to the university each year. The program is a prime example of the success that Posse has...