Congratulations to the new cohort of Franke Graduate Fellows of the Kaplan Humanities Institute. These competitive residencies allow Franke Fellows to develop their research and teaching within the Kaplan Institute's interdisciplinary community throughout 2023-2024. Franke Graduate Fellowships, supported by funding from...
Congratulations to the cohort of 2023-2024 Faculty Fellows for the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities! This competitive residency allows recipients a full year of leave or a teaching reduction in order to develop their projects within an interdisciplinary setting....
Laurisa Sastoque, a senior in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, has received a 2023 Gates Cambridge Scholarship. This award recognizes Sastoque and others in her cohort as not only accomplished academics, but also as emerging leaders who will...
Northwestern launched a digital exhibit, “Black Organizing in Pre-Civil War Illinois: Creating Community, Demanding Justice,” that is currently accessible through Penn State University’s Colored Conventions Project website. The exhibit, led by Kate Masur, Northwestern professor and historian, highlights the 25 men...
Two Weinberg College alumni have been awarded the American Council of Learned Societies’ Emerging Voices Fellowship. The fellowship was created in response to the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and it aims to support early-career scholars who will...
Professor Corey Byrnes has been chosen as a 2021-2022 Radcliffe Institute Fellow, joining a class whose work spans the sciences, social sciences, humanities and arts. An associate professor of modern and contemporary Chinese culture, comparative literary studies and environmental humanities...
The Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities promotes expansive, interdisciplinary discussion and debate. The Institute cultivates ideas that transform into cutting-edge research and dynamic courses. Each year the Institute invites students in The Graduate School to apply for the Franke...
The Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities promotes expansive, interdisciplinary discussion and debate. The Institute cultivates ideas that transform into cutting-edge research and dynamic courses. Each year the Institute invites faculty members working in the humanities and humanistic social sciences...
Anna Maree Parkinson, professor in the Department of German, has been awarded a Kaplan Center for the Humanities Fellowship for 2021-2022. The Kaplan Center for the Humanities Fellowship, a part of the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, enables Northwestern faculty to...
Brendan Fernandes, artist-in-residence and professor at Northwestern University, was nominated and selected to receive the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. This award is given every two years by a jury of professionals in the art sector. Fernandes and other recipients were...
