Professor Mary Pattillo, the Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and chair of the Department of African American Studies was recognized as a leading Black urbanist and pioneer by the American Planning Association in the piece “11 Black Urbanists Every …
James Druckman, the Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science and Institute for Policy Research associate director is part of a university research consortium, which includes Northwestern, Harvard, Northeastern, and Rutgers, investigating attitudes on COVID-19.
Of 25,000 people surveyed …
Aldon Morris, Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African American Studies and president of the American Sociological Association, explains how social justice movements succeed in the Scientific American article “From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter.”
Jayson Maurice Porter, a PhD candidate in the Department of History, was recently published in the Washington Post’s Made By History section.
Porter’s perspective piece, “The problem of environmental racism in Mexico today is rooted in history,…
In this episode of the Global Lunchbox Podcast, Professor Geraldo Cadava explains his close connection to his grandfather, a Hispanic Republican, and his experience and research in politics within the American Hispanic community. He discusses how his own views …
Sociologist and Professor Wendy Griswold discusses how English novels came to be, their accessibility, and their current status within countries of various incomes in this episode of the Global Lunchbox Podcast.
Wendy Griswold is Professor of Sociology and Bergen …
Professor Nitasha Sharma is known for her work in researching and comparing different societies and cultures. On this episode of Global Lunchbox Podcast, Sharma discusses these distinctions and their importance on the theme of “Conducting Comparative Race Studies: Black …
This episode of the Global Lunchbox Podcast features a conversation with Professor Kate Masur of the Department of History at Northwestern and author of Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction (2021).
The …
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences’s “Conversation with the Dean” is a faculty speaker series designed to deliver insights into the cutting-edge research and teaching from faculty experts around the College. The series is offered live to Weinberg College leadership …
Northwestern’s Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy conducted a survey experiment focused on how #BlackLivesMatter messages on police reform affected the behaviors and attitudes of Democratic-leaning voters in Georgia.
The researchers, Department of Political Science Professor Alvin Tillery…