Dr. Elizabeth W. Son

Happy to share this guide on how to train and mentor grad students to do publicly engaged work. Contributed an essay with Jessica Friedman on teaching public humanities in practice.

Attention @NorthwesternU graduate students: Apply for a @BuffettInst International Conference Travel Grant, which funds students traveling to present their research at a professional academic conference outside the US. 🗓 Apply by Jan. 15, 2025: spr.ly/6012tpeRA

@AndyKimNJ How beautiful! Your parents are radiating joy and pride. Congratulations!

The hotel where I declared victory on election night was where my family lived for several weeks when I was 5 yrs old and first moved to NJ. I chose to return to this hotel 37 yrs later as a tribute to my parents and NJ for giving a kid like me opportunity and a chance to dream.

The @BuffettInst is pleased to welcome our cohort of eight non-residential faculty fellowships for the 2024–25 academic year. These fellowships support @NorthwesternU faculty who conduct research outside the contiguous US. Learn more about our fellows: spr.ly/60115Yj3J

@micheleweldon @NU_SoC @TheOpEdProject @NorthwesternU Thank you, Michele!!

@NU_SoC Yeah, Ozge! Yeah, Liz! Both of you magnificent @TheOpEdProject #publicvoices alums @NorthwesternU! Great work. Proud to know you!

Congrats to Elizabeth W. Son, associate Theatre professor, and Ozge Samanci, associate RTVF professor, on their recent acceptance to the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs cohort of non-residential faculty fellowships for 2024–25! 📚more here: buffett.northwestern.edu/news/2024/anno….

@LBiggie16 @NorthwesternU You were fabulous, Lisa!

@yuridoolan Congrats, Yuri! Can’t wait to read it!

I’ve held so many paperback monographs over the years as a student and scholar, but this one hits different 🥲

@ProfKapadia Happy birthday, Ronak!!

@ProfKori Gorgeous chair!

Please find information about the position at this link: apply.interfolio.com/140908

ACLS Leading Edge Fellowship Program will offer 21 two-year fellowships with mission-driven nonprofits for recent humanities and interpretive social sciences PhDs. Applications are due Wednesday, March 13, 2024, 9:00 PM EDT. ow.ly/FeTE50QBhXt

Join us for a panel to celebrate the publication of "Liberal Lives and Activist Repertoires: Political Performance and Victorian Social Reform" with author and #NUSoC's own, Prof. Tracy Davis. A reception will follow the panel. RSVP by 2/10: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI….

Looking forward to our session today! #NHC23IN @HumanitiesAll

@sherwinkbryant Congratulations, Sherwin!

I am honored and excited to share: Sherwin K. Bryant named director of Rice’s Center for African and African American Studies | Rice News | News and Media Relations | Rice University news.rice.edu/news/2023/sher…

“We have an ever-changing composition of our population. But we don’t have monumental forms that speak to that.” washingtonpost.com/entertainment/…

Los Angeles is reckoning with one of the deadliest mass killings in its history through public art. #MonumentsSummer mellon.org/grant-story/th…

ACLS is accepting applications for our ACLS Fellowships, which this year are designated for early career, non-tenured scholars who earned PhDs on or after Sept 29, 2015. Awards of $30-60k + research funds for NTT scholars. Apply by Sept. 28, 9PM EDT: bit.ly/3Q0Oi5I

Speaking of tenure letters and since it's TL writing season, here is a folder with freely accessible materials I found and downloaded that may help you in crafting a solid letter for promotion and tenure for a candidate. drive.google.com/drive/folders/…

"Embodied Reckonings: 'Comfort Women,' Performance, and Transpacific Redress" (@UofMPress) by @ElizabethWSon F’19, F’10 examines the political and cultural aspects of contemporary performances that have grappled with the history of the “comfort women." #APAHM