Alfred F. Young, a professor emeritus in NIU’s Department of History and pioneer in the field of early American history, died Nov. 6, in Durham, N.C., according to a published obituary. He was 87.
Young was a past recipient of the award for distinguished service in the historical profession from the Organization of American Historians....
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The United States is celebrating this year the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps, a volunteer program that has sent more than 200,000 Americans around the globe to promote world peace and friendship.
When the Peace Corps was founded in March of 1961, NIU became an early and active advocate for service in the Corps.
Through the...
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Forty-five years ago this year, NIU’s Department of History conferred its first doctoral degree.
Professor Anne Hanley, director of graduate studies, has led an effort by the department to mark the special occasion.
The department has invited its Ph.D. alumni to campus for events to commemorate the anniversary, including attending the Graduate School commencement ceremony at which...
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NIU’s Center for Latino and Latin American Studies has announced the lecturers for its March Colloquium Series Speakers.
Tuesday, March 8
Katherine M. Donato, professor and chair of Sociology and director of the Program for Medicine, Health & Society at Vanderbilt University, will present her lecture, “How Many Women? How Many Men?: Gender in International Migration,” at noon in the Illinois...
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Five of seven current and retired Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) associates who served as volunteers in the Peace Corps, and whose lives changed course through their experiences, came recently to the center’s weekly lecture series to hear CSEAS graduate assistant Maria “Rai” Hancock tell the story of NIU’s formative role in the early...
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NIU professor and historian Nancy M. Wingfield, selected for a Fulbright Fellowship by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, is spending this fall semester in Ukraine researching humankind’s oldest profession: prostitution.
Wingfield is currently hosted by Chernivtsi National University in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, where she is completing research on a book-length manuscript on prostitution in...
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Historian Ramón Gutiérrez — an award-winning author and director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago — will visit Northern Illinois University later this month to deliver the seventh annual W. Bruce Lincoln Lecture.
The lecture, titled “Thinking About Race in a Post-Racial America: From Plessy v. Ferguson...
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