In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Northwestern University experts break down the ongoing crisis.
According to Northwestern political scientist Jordan Gans-Morse, “We’ve awoken today to a new world order, one in which dictators again find it permissible …
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 …
Professor Andrew Papachristos, of the Department of Sociology, explores how street outreach has helped stem gun violence in a new guest essay for the Chicago Tribune.
Papachristos explains how 250 unarmed people walk the streets of Chicago each day …
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 …
Weinberg College community members recently were in the media, sharing their expertise. View the articles below.
Long before movies and screens, Chicago went nuts for something called cycloramas
Chicago Tribune 10/19
The Chicago History Museum cyclorama is a small stunner …
Professor Daniel Immerwahr, of the Department of History, discussed the environmentalism of “Dune” in a guest essay for The New York Times.
Immerwahr notes that the “parched wasteland” that author Frank Herbert created in the novel feels all too familiar. …
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 …
In March of 2021, History Professor Kate Masur published her new book, Until Justice Be Done. The work examines the restrictive codes called Black laws or Black codes that constrained the lives of Black people in northern free states, …
Professor Claire Sufrin, of Weinberg’s Department of Religious Studies, has been named a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in the category of Modern Jewish Thought and Experience.
Her book, “The New Jewish Canon: Ideas and Debates …
Growing up, Northwestern student Victoria Da Conceicao looked to her grandmother for inspiration. But she had to face a difficult reality as her grandmother’s sharp mind began to soften. After doing research as to what could slow Alzheimer’s disease, her …