Arts & Humanities

Kelly Wisecup, Professor of English, has been awarded the St. Louis Mercantile Library Prize for her 2021 book, Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American Literatures. Wisecup is also Interim Director (2022-23) of the Alice Kaplan...

Weinberg College welcomes Assistant Professor of Instruction Irene Finestrat Martinez to the Department of Spanish and Portuguese! Martinez recently answered a few questions about her research and what inspired her to pursue her area of study. Where are you from? Where did...

Ben Frommer will be assisting in the development of two museums abroad: the MEHRIN Moravian Jewish Museum in Brno, and a new Jewish museum in Prague. Frommer was appointed to the International Advisory Board of the project to establish a Moravian...

Weinberg College welcomes Associate Professor of Instruction Shuwen Li to the Cook Family Writing Program! Li recently answered a few questions about his background and what inspired him to pursue his area of study. Where are you from? Where did you study? I’m...

Historian Deborah Cohen’s book Last Call at the Hotel Imperial has been chosen as one of the Best Books of 2022 by the New Yorker, NPR, BookPage, and Booklist. The book explores the lives of four journalists who reported from Europe and Asia during...

Historian Jeff Eden’s book, God Save the USSR: Soviet Muslims and the Second World War, has been named one of Foreign Affairs’ Best Books of 2022. God Save the USSR explores Muslim life and political policy in a four-year period of...

Quilting has played a significant role in the history of Black American folk art and American folk art as a whole. Tracy L. Vaughn-Manley, Betty Joy Bonds of Chicago, and Melissa Blount of Evanston, known as "sister quilters," have used...

Susan J. Pearson, Professor of History at Northwestern, has been awarded the 2022 Book Award by the Order of the Coif Executive Committee, for her 2021 book The Birth Certificate: An American History. The Order of the Coif is the national...

Historian Kate Masur’s latest book Until Justice Be Done: American’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction has won the American Society for Legal History’s John Phillip Reid Book Prize. The John Phillip Reid Book Prize is presented...

Amy Stanley, Professor of History at Northwestern, has won Taiwan’s 2022 OpenBook Award for her book, Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World. “It’s the story of a rebellious, discontented woman who sacrificed everything to be there,”...