ALICE KAPLAN INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES

Daniel Immerwahr is a Professor of U.S. and global history at Northwestern and the author of How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (2019) which analyzes the historic and contemporary mechanisms of American imperialism. He is a contributing writer for The New Yorker and his essays have also appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, and The Atlantic.

Meida McNeal is the Artistic and Managing Director of Honeypot Performance and the Deputy Commissioner of Cultural Grants and Resources at Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. She has worked on the Chicago Black Social Culture Map archive which approaches archiving as a social, community driven practice and documents the lived experiences of Black Chicagoans from the Great Migration through the rise of House music.

Hirokazu Miyazaki is a Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern and the Principal Investigator of “The Role of Cities in the Politics of Nuclear Weapons,” a project funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Mapping Nuclear Legacies is one component of this project that maps site-specific stories related to nuclear histories and legacies in the U.S. and beyond its borders.

Tonika Lewis Johnson is a photographer, social justice activist, and creator of the multimedia Folded Map Project. This project investigates urban segregation in Chicago by visually connecting residents who live at corresponding addresses on the city’s North and South Sides. She is the co-founder of the Englewood Arts Collective and Resident Association of Greater Englewood and co-author of Don’t Go: Stories of Segregation and How to Disrupt It.