In the Media
Chicago Maroon: Newly Launched McKeon Center Looks to Cross Fields and Platform Tough Conversations
November 02, 2023
The McKeon Center seeks to reinvigorate the humanities with programming based on real-world events and plans for new minor.
In the Media
Robert J Richards on Nazi racial ideas
February 11, 2022
IFK Faculty Robert J Richards cited in Evolution News article "Darwinian Racism: How Evolutionary Theory Shaped Nazi Thinking"In the Media
Is the legal standard for libel outdated?
February 04, 2022
IFK Faculty Genevieve Lakier looks at Sarah Palin's lawsuit against the New York Times and discusses the Sullivan rule in libel law, in the Washington Post.
In the Media
‘Jim Crow relic’: A short history of the filibuster
January 18, 2022
IFK Faculty William Howell comments on the history of the filibusterIn the Media
Austan Goolsbee in conversation on midterms and the U.S. economy
January 18, 2022
IFK Faculty Austan Goolsbee in conversation on midterms and the U.S. economy on MSNBCThe Sleep of Reason Produces Cats
January 12, 2022
IFK Faculty Michael Rossi on Edward L. Thorndike’s experiments with cats and scientific experimentation
In the Media
There is no Planet B
January 11, 2022
Science fiction scholars and IFK postdocs Katherine Buse and Anastasia Klimchynskaya offer insight on sci fi history and planet speculation in Popular Science
In the Media
Was Voltaire the First Sci-Fi Author?
January 11, 2022
IFK Faculty Ada Palmer tells WIRED Voltaire could be considered the first Sci-Fi writer thanks to a piece he wrote in 1752, Micromegas which features aliens.News
Brad Bolman receives various honorable mentions for essay awards and research grant
December 02, 2021
Honorable mentions from FHHMLS Graduate Essay Award and FHHS John C. Burnham Early Career Award and Received Royal Society Lisa Jardine Grant
News
Ana Klimchynskaya receives the Science Fiction Research Association Support a New Scholar Grant!
December 02, 2021
Congratulations to IFK Postdoc Ana Klimchynskaya on receiving the Science Fiction Research Association Support a New Scholar Grant! The New Scholar Program supports scholars of outstanding promise in
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Shannon Lee Dawdy’s ‘American Afterlives’ charts growing marketplace for new death rituals
November 15, 2021
IFK Faculty and Research Grant Recipient Shannon Lee Dawdy's book 'American Afterlives: Reinventing Death in the 21st Century' charts growing marketplace for new death rituals.
News
IFK Faculty Eve L. Ewing and Michael Rossi Receive the 2020 and 2021 Laing Awards
November 15, 2021
IFK Core Faculty Michael Rossi and SIFK Faculty Research Grant Recipient Eve Ewing recently received the prestigious 2020 and 2021 Laing Awards
In the Media
America Needs a New Scientific Revolution
November 05, 2021
James Evans' research on scientific progress and the "ossification" of research
Announcements
Ada Palmer Releases New Book with Seminary Coop
November 04, 2021
The event will include a reading, a Q&A and a book signing.
Announcements
Eve Ewing selected to give the faculty welcome at the inauguration of President Paul Alivisatos
October 27, 2021
Ewing is an award-winning author and sociologist of education whose work focuses on the impact of racism and social inequality in K-12 public school systems