Marzouq Alnusf, a PhD candidate in Weinberg’s Department of Philosophy, has been named a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow. Nationally, this award is arguably the most prestigious fellowship available for the humanities addressing questions of religious and ethical …
Evan Dutmer, ’19 grad of Northwestern’s Department of Philosophy, has been nominated as one of the possible recipients of the 2021 Cambridge University Press Dedicated Teacher Awards. Dutmer works as an instructor in Latin, Ancient Mediterranean Cultures, and …
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 …
Jennifer Lackey, the Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy was named a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow.
The award will help support Lackey’s next book project, ‘Criminal Testimonial Injustice,’ which examines how testimonies are extracted and then used in the …
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 …
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 …
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 …