The African American Studies department will officially change its name to the Black Studies department in the next few months pending final approval by Northwestern’s Board of Trustees, according to a Thursday news release. The department’s new title aims to better reflect “the breadth of its scholarship and teaching,” according to the formal name change.
The National Science Foundation recognized four Northwestern assistant professors with the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, the University announced Thursday. The award supports early-career faculty in becoming academic role models and leaders in their departments, according to NSF. The award recipients — Christos Dimoulas, Xiumin Du, Daniel Horton and Hatim Rahman — will each.
At the first of six events planned by the Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora this year, Communication Prof. Moya Bailey and Carleton University professor Ann Cvetkovich discussed a topic familiar to many students: fatigue. The Monday event, moderated by Communication Prof. Joshua Chambers-Letson, centered on a conversation about what it means to be exhausted in.
African American Studies faculty voted unanimously on April 6 to change the department’s name to Black Studies, department chair Mary Pattillo told The Daily Monday. In accordance with Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences rules for renaming a department, the change could take about a year to be finalized, Pattillo said in an email to.
On the sixth anniversary of Chicago’s reparations ordinance, local activists and scholars discussed police abolition, collective approaches to community organizing and healing from state violence in a Thursday discussion.
The event, hosted by the Council for Race and Ethnic Studies in its inaugural spring speaker event “Abolitionist Futures,” was moderated by Asian American Studies Prof. Patricia Nguyen.
The discussion and Q&A featured founder of Black Lives Matter Chicago and co-executive director of the Chicago Torture Justice Center Aislinn Pulley, and Prof. Dylan Rodriguez, who teaches media and cultural studies at the University of California at Riverside.
The conversation began with an acknowledgement of Chicago’s reparations legislation anniversary and the role of community organizing, especially from incarcerated individuals and police violence survivors, in the passage of the historic law.