History Professor Kate Masur’s new book, Until Justice Be Done, is a groundbreaking examination of the movement for equal rights in the decades preceding the Civil War.
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Alexandra Rone Lang ’21, a Northwestern University philosophy major, won first prize in the 2020 Prize in Ethics Essay Contest presented by The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, LRN Corporation and LRN Founder and Chairman Dov Seidman.
Lang’s winning essay …
History Professor Amy Stanley’s, new book, Stranger in the Shogun’s City (Scribner, 2020) won the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. Stanely is also the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography and a finalist for …
Professor Patricia Marechal, of the Department of Classics and Department of Philosophy, has been awarded the Provost Faculty Grant for Research in Humanities, Social Sciences and the Arts for her project.
“Labors Not Lost. Midwifes, Craftswomen, and Sages: Recovering …
Sarah Maza, the Jane Long Professor in the Arts and Sciences and Professor of History, recently received the William Koren, Jr. Prize from the Society for French Historical Studies.
This prize is awarded to the most outstanding …
Weinberg College welcomes Professor Jeffrey Coleman to the Department of Spanish & Portuguese! Professor Coleman recently offered some thoughts on his research, teaching, and love of fountain pens as he prepares to join the Weinberg College faculty in the …
Myrna García, assistant professor of instruction in Latina and Latino Studies, and the diversity, equity and inclusion committee of the physical therapy and human movement sciences department at Feinberg School of Medicine will receive the Daniel Linzer Award for …
Professors Kasey Evans and Kelly Wisecup of the Department of English were named the 2021 recipients of The Alumnae of Northwestern University’s Award for Curriculum Innovation. They will create curriculum that will incorporate anti-racist practices in the study of British …
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day English professor Natasha Trethewey, two-time U.S. Poet Laureate and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2007, introduced a special collaborative remix of the seminal poem “For My People,” a civil rights anthem…
Jackson was appointed poet laureate for the state of Illinois in November by Governor J.B. Pritzker. An award-winning poet, novelist and playwright who grew up on Chicago’s South Side and graduated from Northwestern in 1977, Jackson will work to promote …