Stephanie Fryberg, a renowned social and cultural psychologist, joins Northwestern University’s Department of Psychology and will be affiliated with the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR) Professor Stephanie Fryberg has joined Northwestern’s Department of Psychology and will be affiliated...
Kelly Wisecup, Professor of English, has been awarded the St. Louis Mercantile Library Prize for her 2021 book, Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American Literatures. Wisecup is also Interim Director (2022-23) of the Alice Kaplan...
Northwestern undergraduates Isabella Twocrow and Kadin Mills recently received recognition from the Morris K. and Stewart L. Udall Foundation, a federal agency that supports study in fields related to the environment, tribal public policy, and Native American health care. Twocrow is participating...
Wayne Valliere, an artist-in-residence at the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR) at Northwestern, is one of only a handful of Native birchbark canoe builders remaining in the U.S. Valliere, whose native name is Mino-Giizhig, which means good sky,...
Arlene Hirschfelder, a champion of Native American rights and friend to the Center for Native American & Indigenous Research (CNAIR) at Northwestern, died on August 21. She was 78 years old. “Arlene was a fearless advocate for Native people. Her scholarship...
Dr. Kelly Wisecup, professor in the Department of English and an affiliate of the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research, has received the 2021-2022 Newberry Consortium in American Indian and Indigenous Studies (NCAIS) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation...
The new center, funded by a $1.5 million grant from the Mellon Foundation, will develop new scholarship, projects and programming Northwestern University has received a $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the establishment of a Native...
Adrian Randolph, dean of the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, announces a cluster of new faculty hires as part of the recently launched Indigenous Studies Research Initiative. Three new colleagues in this area will join Weinberg College in September 2016. Beth...
Adrian Randolph, dean of the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, has announced the creation of the Indigenous Studies Research Initiative. The full text of the announcement follows. As a positive and forward-looking response to the recommendations that emerged from the...
