Prof. Deborah Cohen named interim leader of Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
November 30, 2023 – from Northwestern Now
2023 News
November
Prof. Cadava and Dean Randolph discuss the meaning of diversity
November 15, 2023
History gives sweet insight into courses - Cakes and Classes fall 2023!
November 6, 2023 – from The Daily Northwestern
October
Prof. Daniel Immerwahr's article is published in The New Yorker
October 17, 2023
Prof. Deborah Cohen's book wins Phi Beta Kappa's Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
October 16, 2023
July
Prof. Kathleen Belew Quoted in News Regarding Pentagon’s Inaction on Extremism
July 21, 2023 – from USA Today
May
Prof. Geraldo Cadava's "The Rise of Latino White Supremacy" in The New Yorker
May 30, 2023
History on stage - Prof. Kate Masur and Prof. Joanna Grisinger collaborate with TimeLine Theatre
May 24, 2023
Prof. Kate Masur is elected to the Society of American Historians
May 23, 2023
Faculty on Considering historical context for political violence
May 8, 2023
The History Department congratulates the 2023 inaugural cohort of Sanders Scholars!
May 5, 2023 – from The History Department
Prof. Masur and Prof. Belew on democracy and political violence to House Select Committee investigating the January 6th US Capitol attack
May 3, 2023 – from WCAS News Center
Prof. Daniel Immerwahr published in The New Yorker on the 1993 Waco siege and more
May 1, 2023
Prof. Geraldo Cadava in The New Yorker on Florida's Right Turn on Immigration
May 1, 2023
April
Prof. Kevin Boyle is published in The Atlantic
April 27, 2023
2023 Prizes and Awards
April 21, 2023
Prof. Amy Stanley Named Guggenheim Fellow
April 7, 2023 – from Northwestern Now
March
Prof. Gerry Cadava is published in The New Yorker: Should Latinos Be Considered a Race?
March 27, 2023 – from The New Yorker
Prof. Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern appears in KRYTYKA journal, online and paper ed.
March 24, 2023 – from KRYTYKA
Thinking Ukraine
Prof. Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern's book, Miron Petrovsky and his Epoch, is published
March 24, 2023
Prof. Akin Ogundiran wins the Isaac Oluwole Delano Prize for Yoruba Studies
March 3, 2023
February
Prof. Kevin Boyle's 210-0 lecture is filmed by C-SPAN
February 20, 2023
Prof. Geraldo Cadava on Refugee Resettlement in the New Yorker
February 20, 2023
Professor Ji-Yeon Yuh publishes article titled Violence is the American Way - Asian Americans appear ready to assimilate
February 3, 2023 – from San Francisco Chronicle
Professor Kate Masur talks on WGN-TV about the 13th Amendment
February 1, 2023
Ian Sanders endows professorship and creates ‘must-take’ undergraduate seminar
February 1, 2023
Prof. Dyan Elliott’s book is awarded the Medieval Academy of America's Haskins Medal for 2023
February 1, 2023
January
Professor Ed Muir begins his term as the 139th president of the American Historical Association
January 30, 2023
Prof. Paul Gillingham's Unrevolutionary Mexico receives honorable mention for the Cline Book Prize
January 30, 2023
History professor Laura Hein and Organization of Women Faculty co-chairs are honored with this year’s Provost Awards for Exemplary Service
January 30, 2023 – from Northwestern Now
Prof. David Schoenbrun to be featured in The Journal of African History's podcast
January 18, 2023
Prof. David Shyovitz appears on NPR's Weekend Edition to talk about the history of Hanukkah in the context of anti-Semitic violence
January 18, 2023 – from NPR
Fires have grown weirder according to Professor Daniel Immerwahr's best of 2022 on the Guardian Long Reads
January 17, 2023
Professor Kathleen Belew publishes an article in The Atlantic on crunchy and alt-right
January 17, 2023 – from The Atlantic
Professor Amy Stanley's Stranger in the Shogun's City wins Taiwan's 2022 OpenBook Award for best book in translation
January 17, 2023 – from Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Professors Kathleen Belew, Geraldo Cadava, and Daniel Immerwahr contribute chapters in Myth America
January 10, 2023