Embracing Uncertainty, From Economic Policy To Space Colonization
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Professor Nitasha Sharma discusses comparative race studies on Global Lunchbox Podcast
Professor Nitasha Sharma is known for her work in researching and comparing different societies and cultures. On this episode of Global Lunchbox Podcast, Sharma discusses these distinctions and their importance on the theme of "Conducting Comparative Race Studies: Black Studies,...
Professor and historian Kate Masur discusses historical perspective on storming of U.S. Capitol in Global Lunchbox Podcast
This episode of the Global Lunchbox Podcast features a conversation with Professor Kate Masur of the Department of History at Northwestern and author of Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction (2021). The point...
Professor Charles Camic’s book, “Veblen: The Making of an Economist Who Unmade Economics,” is a new biography on one of America’s most important economic thinkers
Sociology Professor Charles Camic’s new book, Veblen: The Making of an Economist Who Unmade Economics, is a new biography on Thorstein Veblen who was one of America’s most important economic thinkers of modern capitalist society. From Harvard University Press: "A bold new...
Professor Cristina Lafont discusses her book, “Democracy without Shortcuts: A Participatory Conception of Deliberative Democracy” on the Global Lunchbox Podcast
The Global Lunchbox Podcast, produced by the Weinberg College Center for International and Area Studies, presents conversations with scholars in the social sciences and humanities about their current research on a range of critical global issues. In this episode, "Democracy without...
Professor Wendy Wall awarded MLA Prize for The Pulter Project
Wendy Wall, professor in the Department of English, has been awarded the Modern Language Association Prize for Collaborative, Bibliographical, or Archival Scholarship for her work, The Pulter Project: Poet in the Making. Wall is no stranger to awards. She has previously...
Members of the Department of Anthropology and Global Health Studies contribute to special issue of the American Journal of Human Biology on COVID-19
Several members of the anthropology department and the program in global health studies, past and present, have contributed to a special issue of the American Journal of Human Biology on the COVID-19 pandemic, which includes 14 commentaries by leading scholars in the field. Professor...
Professor Geraldo Cadava discusses new book: “The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, From Nixon to Trump”
Department of History Professor Geraldo Cadava discusses his book, The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, From Nixon to Trump (Ecco, May 2020) in the Northwestern Now story: ‘Latinos aren’t naturally liberal or conservative’ “Politicians need to take...