Professor Mark Hauser, associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and an affiliate faculty member of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, has a new book, “Mapping Water in Dominica: Enslavement and Environment under Colonialism,” …
Natasha Trethewey, Weinberg Board of Trustees Professor of English and renowned poet, received the 2021 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for her nonfiction work Memorial Drive.
Trethewey has previously been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Heinz Award for Arts …
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.
Disheartening as it is to read
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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 …
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.
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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 …
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’
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