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arts &Program provides $35,000 for graduate studies in the arts, humanities and social sciences Abhi Nimmagadda, a third-year student at Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences has been awarded a $35,000 Beinecke Scholarship to pursue graduate studies in South Asian Studies. He is the...

“Reaching Your Dream” series tells stories of Northwestern alums who found their dream careers thanks to Chicago Field Studies (CFS), an academic internship program that matches over 500 students every year with over 250 employer partners. CFS participants receive guidance on...

Sessions will offer a deep dive into history many people know little about Professor Wendy Pearlman urges students, whether they have strong opinions or not, to seek more knowledge about history. “There are so many ways people are engaging personally, politically and...

Mark Alznauer received the best article award from the Journal of the History of Philosophy. His article was titled “Untrue Concepts in Hegel’s Logic” and published in the January 2023 issue. Alznauer is associate professor in the department of philosophy. He...

Three-time Emmy and Grammy Award-winning broadcaster Rachel Maddow paid a visit to Northwestern’s history department Oct. 19. At the invitation of associate professor Kathleen Belew, Maddow spent two hours with faculty and graduate students exchanging questions and ideas about ways to...

Kevin Boyle, William Smith Mason Professor of American History at Northwestern, has been published in The Atlantic. Boyle's op-ed, How Relatives Can Make Radicals, explores the influence of family members on radical extremism. "The conventional wisdom about radicalization is that ideas...

On Thursday, May 11 Yağmur Heffron will present the lecture, "An Embarrassment of Riches: Reconciling Grave Wealth and Historical Narratives of Decline at Ancient Kanesh" from 7 - 9 pm at Harris Hall. REGISTER Description Excavations at the site of Kültepe (ancient Kanesh)...

Historian Deborah Cohen’s latest book, Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World War, recently received two awards: the Goldsmith Book Prize from Harvard University, and the prestigious Lynton History Prize from Columbia University. Cohen is...

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...

Historian İpek Yosmaoğlu has been elected the next President of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association – the field’s flagship professional association. The Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association is a private, non-political organization of scholars, students, and other persons interested in...