Alessia Ricciardi, the Herman and Beulah Pearce Miller Research Professor in Literature, has been awarded the 2021 American Association of Italian Studies Book Prize in the category of Literary Studies for Finding Ferrante: Authorship and the Politics of World …
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 …
History Professor Daniel Immerwahr, recently wrote a piece in The Guardian on why a complacent attitude about nuclear weapons is dangerous.
In the article, Immerwahr details the history of nuclear weapons and the discussion surrounding their use in the …
History Professor Kate Masur is a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in History for her book Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction.
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Historian Deborah Cohen’s new book, Last Call at the Hotel Imperial, explores the lives of four journalists who reported from Europe and Asia during the lead-up to World War II. Cohen is the Richard W. Leopold Professor of History …
Cultural anthropologist Mary Weismantel’s book Playing with Things: Engaging the Moche Sex Pots (2021) was awarded the 2022 ALAA-Arvey Foundation Book Award for the best book in Latin American Art History.
Weismantel is professor and chair of the Department of …
Kian Gohar graduated from Weinberg in 1998, studying history and political science. A former executive director of the XPRIZE Foundation and Singularity University, he has coached the leadership teams of dozens of Fortune 500 companies.
In this Alumni Spotlight, Kian …
The New York Times has named Professor Kate Masur’s book, Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction (W. W. Norton, 2021), one of the best books of 2021. The work examines the …
In History Professor Kevin Boyle‘s new book, “The Shattering: America in the 1960s,” he lays out historical events that pierced the stability of the status quo, and set the stage for three key struggles the U.S. still grapples with …
This episode of the Global Lunchbox podcast features a conversation with anthropologist Mark Hauser about his book Mapping Water in Dominica: Enslavement and Environment under Colonialism (2021). His book talks about re-evaluating one’s worldview through the eyes of slavery, as …