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Visiting scholar Brian Bockelman receives NEH fellowship

January 5, 2015 Mark McGowan Campus Highlights, Did You Know?, Faculty & Staff, Global, Grant Getters, Humanities, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Research

Brian Bockelman, a visiting scholar at NIU’s Center for Latino and Latin American Studies, has received a major fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities to continue his research and writing on Argentine history in the late 19th century. The generous

A boy flees Paris during the Battle of France. The photograph is the work of Theresa Bonney and published in her “Europe’s Children, 1939-1943” book of photographs.

NIU is NEH strong

January 13, 2014 Thomas Parisi Campus Highlights, Did You Know?, Faculty & Staff, Global, Grant Getters, Humanities, Latest News, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Research, Students

Northern Illinois University faculty members have been named as recipients of three highly competitive funding awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities. NIU received more grants in this latest award cycle than any other Illinois institution. NEH grants went to: Heide

Rethinking the role of women in politics

November 20, 2013 Thomas Parisi Faculty & Staff, Grant Getters, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Students

What is the appropriate role of women in political life? Are women fundamentally different than men? How does “femininity” qualify or disqualify women from political participation? These questions have been debated for millennia, going back to Plato and the ancient Greeks. But