Cate Denial (History) is the recipient of the Friends of the American Philosophical Society Fellowship for 2018-2019 for her work: “Mother of All Living: Motherhood, Religion, and Political Culture at the Ojibwe Village of Fond du Lac, 1830-1840”

Each year, the American Philosophical Society offers two long-term, two digital humanities, and twenty to twenty-five short-term […]

The International Voices Project, a series of staged readings of plays from around the world at the Instituto Cervantes in Chicago, featured Haven by Canadian playwright Mishka Lavigne, translated from French by Neil Blackadder (Theatre). Another reading, of A Muslim in the Midst by Anand Rao, was directed by Emily Antoff ’15.

An earlier […]

Helen Hoyt (Chemistry) received the 2018 “Early Career Chemist Award” at the American Chemical Society, Illinois Heartland Section Spring Meeting (Peoria, IL). This award recognizes outstanding scientific contributions to the field of chemistry by a scientist that is actively using chemistry in a positive way, and who has received their PhD within the last 12 […]

An article by Jonah Rubin (Anthropology/Sociology) has been published. The article is entitled “How Francisco Franco governs from beyond the grave: An infrastructural approach to memory politics in contemporary Spain” and was published in the May issue of American Ethnologist. It can be accessed at https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.12633. For those who don’t have access to the […]

Liz Carlin Metz (Theatre) directed the USA premiere stage reading of Hypnotized by Love, by Dušan Kovačević, the most famous living Serbian playwright. The translation was by Dennis Barnett, Associate Professor of Theatre at Coe College. The production was produced by Vitalist Theatre at Instituto Cervantes in Chicago as part of the annual International Voices […]

Neil Blackadder (Theatre) was an invited participant at Drama Across Borders: The Politics & Poetics of Contemporary Theatre in Translation, a site-specific conference at Cornell University and The Cherry Artspace in Ithaca, NY. Blackadder’s presentation was entitled “The challenge of translating Austrian dialect in the plays of Thomas Arzt,” and featured a reading of […]