Growing up with parents in academia, Asian American Studies Program Director and Weinberg Prof. Nitasha Tamar Sharma knew early on that she wanted to become a professor.
Sharma came to Northwestern...
The Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities hosted its fall keynote, “Academic Energies: A Conversation Beyond Coping,” on Tuesday.
The conversation, part of its 2022-23 yearlong dialogue “ENERGIES,”...
Since students led a 23-day hunger strike in 1995 to institute the Asian American Studies Program, the demands of activists have continued to be linked to ethnic studies at Northwestern.
Starting in...
Hamstrung by a lack of departmental status, Northwestern’s ethnic studies programs have — until recently — been barred from hiring tenure-track faculty exclusive to their fields.
The result has been massive turnover.
Writer Roxane Gay will speak on campus on April 3, the Contemporary Thought Speaker Series announced Sunay.
According to the release, Gay will speak with African American Studies Prof. Nitasha Sharma...
