Laura Hein will be honored with this year's Provost Award for Exemplary Service. She is the Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Professor of History at Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. Given annually by Northwestern’s Office of the Provost, the award...
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 Deborah Cohen’s book Last Call at the Hotel Imperial has been chosen as one of the Best Books of 2022 by the New Yorker, NPR, BookPage, and Booklist. The book explores the lives of four journalists who reported from Europe and Asia during...
Historian Jeff Eden’s book, God Save the USSR: Soviet Muslims and the Second World War, has been named one of Foreign Affairs’ Best Books of 2022. God Save the USSR explores Muslim life and political policy in a four-year period of...
Susan J. Pearson, Professor of History at Northwestern, has been awarded the 2022 Book Award by the Order of the Coif Executive Committee, for her 2021 book The Birth Certificate: An American History. The Order of the Coif is the national...
Historian Kate Masur’s latest book Until Justice Be Done: American’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction has won the American Society for Legal History’s John Phillip Reid Book Prize. The John Phillip Reid Book Prize is presented...
Amy Stanley, Professor of History at Northwestern, has won Taiwan’s 2022 OpenBook Award for her book, Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World. “It’s the story of a rebellious, discontented woman who sacrificed everything to be there,”...
Kathleen Belew, Associate Professor of History, has been featured many times over in the news lately to comment on the rise of white nationalist extremism, and, specifically, Trump's meeting with white supremacist leader Nick Fuentes. Belew, author of Bring the War...
PBS will be airing a new documentary, "The Lie Detector," in their American Experience series on January 3 . The film draws extensively on Northwestern Professor of History Ken Alder's book, The Lie Detectors. Alder, the Milton H. Wilson Professor of...
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...
