Features
Big Brains Podcast: Shannon Lee Dawdy on how death in the US is changing
May 17, 2022
From green burials to DIY funerals, understand how death in America is changing with Shannon Lee Dawdy (Ep 84). Anthropologist examines what our rituals reveal about society, especially after 9/11.
In the Media
Delta Is Casting a Dark Shadow Over the Recovery
July 22, 2021
IFK Faculty Michael Greenstone's early estimates of the economic impact from reducing Covid-19 deaths
In the Media
The Battles to Come Over the Benefits of Working From Home
July 22, 2021
In an op-ed Booth Professor and Meeting of the Mind's Austan Goolsbee discusses the 'return to office' and remote work as an employee benefit.
In the Media
Jeff Bezos blasts into space on own rocket: ‘Best day ever!’
July 21, 2021
IFK Postdoctoral Fellow Jordan Bimm comments on the remarkable passenger makeup and the history of space travel.
Blogs
How Jeff Bezos’ Space Launch Today Will Change Aerospace History
July 21, 2021
With millions watching the meticulously stage-managed suborbital spaceflights by Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin, it’s tempting to conjure the image of a new space race between rival companies.
In the Media
Jeff Bezos reaches space—a small step toward big spaceflight dreams
July 20, 2021
“Space isn’t this transformative place...It’s a place where all of our problems on Earth are going to be reproduced or amplified, and we need to see that. We can’t just wear these rose-colored glasses
In the Media
A professor and artist transform former synagogue into community space
July 20, 2021
Dr. Tom Ginsburg of the University of Chicago School of Law and IFK Faculty is rehabilitating and restoring a 98-year-old building to create an art space
In the Media
Antisocial Dentistry
July 20, 2021
Our inability to easily access dental care is a consequence of this history, together with the struggle to define knowledge of the mouth as a specialized area of medical expertise.
In the Media
IFK Faculty and Historian Ada Palmer explains the revival of Stoicism in Vice article
July 10, 2021
Much like a kitchen knife can be a brilliant tool but can also be used for harm, similarly Stoicism can be a brilliant tool, but can also do harm when it's used to justify Providentialist thinking...
In the Media
IFK Faculty and Sociologist Eve Ewing Helps Us Envision a Better World
July 09, 2021
Listen to Eve talk about critical race theory, comic books, and the power of public schools on NYT's Ezra Klein Show!
Blogs
Four Things on Formations: Yan Slobodkin
June 10, 2021
After a year and change of nonstop zooms and minimal meatspace working and socializing, the first book I reached for when I finished my last remote class of the quarter was The Twittering Machine....jpg?mtime=1621577550)
Announcements
IFK Faculty Professor Ada Palmer wins Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
May 21, 2021
Blogs
Manufactured Uncertainty and the Media History of Risk
May 13, 2021
A blog post issued by Oak Ridge Associated Universities documents an event in 1945 when x-ray photographers first felt the impacts of continental nuclear testing, even if they didn’t recognize...
Features
A 1990s Mural At The 18th Street Station Will Be Restored By A Pilsen Artist
May 12, 2021
SIFK Faculty and Professor of Art History, Dr. Claudia Brittenham, shares her knowledge of Mesoamerican murals in a WBEZ article.
In the Media
Watch: “The Aeneid” by Professor Shadi Bartsch, in conversation with Dr. Anastasia Klimchynskaya
May 12, 2021
Tune in for topics including Vergil's choice of language, being a female translator of a "masculine text," and the epic's relevance in today's political climate.