Posted June 16, 2022
By Rebecca Shereikis, associate director of ISITA The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded a $59,571 planning grant to Northwestern’s Institute for...
Posted June 14, 2022
By Xena Amro A May 2022 workshop organized by ISITA and the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures at the University of Hamburg...
Posted May 12, 2022
ISITA welcomes Xena Amro as the Institute’s part-time graduate assistant for the 2022-2023 academic year. Xena is a second-year Ph.D. student in Comparative Literary...
Posted September 12, 2021
Videos of the talks in the ISITA Dialogues speaker series (winter/spring 2021) are available for viewing on ISITA’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Uh4PiEZozmK_5QwpcLQAw. ...
Posted May 15, 2021
by Michelle Johnson (anthropology, Bucknell University) For decades, scholars have explored the dynamic between Islam and local cultures. When I began my fieldwork in...
Posted April 15, 2021
by Alexander Thurston (political science, University of Cincinnati) When I began my Ph.D. work at Northwestern in 2009, I was – and I remain...
Posted April 7, 2021
by Iqbal Akhtar (Florida International University) The idea of African as a conciousness emerges through colonization in much the same way the idea of...
Posted March 5, 2021
by Aliyah Khan (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (1701–1773), Fula Muslim of Senegal, was one of an unknown number of West...
Posted February 19, 2021
by Harry Nii Koney Odamtten (Santa Clara University) Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832-1912) needs no introduction in most academic circles. He is a celebrated figure...