For many humanities graduate students, the pandemic meant pauses to in-person research, delayed plans for graduation and disrupted career prospects. On May 1, 2020, Northwestern University Graduate Workers hosted an International Workers’ Day sit-in to advocate for #universal1yr, an additional year of funding for all graduate workers at Northwestern. Now, about a year after the NUGW action, graduate workers are experiencing varying degrees of delays to research, NUGW co-chair and Ph.D. candidate Charlotte Rosen said. “Everyone’s experience is probably a little bit different, and some ...