Northwestern University
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Junior Research Seminars
for Current and Previous Years

Unless otherwise indicated, these courses have been offered in the spring quarter.

Junior Research Seminars for 2007-2008  

RELIGION 319-JR and ASTRON 390-JR - The Origins of Life and the Meaning of the Universe
Instructors
: Christina Traina (Religion) and Fred Rasio (Physics and Astronomy)

ANTHRO 390-JR and ART HIST 390-JR - The Anthropology of Art
Instructors
: Mary Weismantel (Anthropology) and Stephen Eisenman (Art History)

POLI SCI 397-JR and SOCIOL 376-JR - An International Rule of Law? Social Networks and the Building of the International Legal Order
Instructors : Karen Alter (Political Science) and John Hagan (Sociology)

Junior Research Seminars for 2006-2007  

AMER ST 391-JR, ENGLISH 390-JR, and HISTORY 390-JR - The Periodical Press and Nineteenth-Century American Cultural Life
Instructor
: Carl Smith (American Studies, English, and History)

ANTHRO 390-JR and LING 390-JR - The Social Construction of Sexual Identity
Instructors
: Mary Weismantel (Anthropology) and Gregory Ward (Linguistics)

ART HIST 390-JR - The Spaces of Chicago:  Architectural, Social, and Artistic
Instructors : David Van Zanten (Art History) and Hannah Feldman (Art History)

POLI SCI 397-JR - Campaign 2006 - Fall 2006
Instructor : Jamie Druckman (Political Science)  

Junior Research Seminars for 2005-2006  

ASTRON 390-JR - Astrobiology
Instructor
: Fred Rasio (Astronomy)  

ENGLISH 390-JR - Museums and Exhibiting
Instructor : Tracy Davis (English)  

PSYCH 390-JR - The Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live By
Instructor : Dan McAdams (Psychology)  

Junior Research Seminars for 2004-2005

ART HIST 390-JR and RELIGION 319-JR - Text and Image in East Asian Buddhism
Instructors
: Sarah Fraser (Art History) and Brook Ziporyn (Religion)  

ANTHRO 390-JR and ENGLISH 390-JR - Darwinism and Human Culture
Instructor
: Blakey Vermuele (English)

GEN LA 395-JR - The Periodical Press and American Cultural Life - Winter 2005
Instructor
: Carl Smith (American Studies, English, and History)  

SOCIOL 376-JR - The Car
Instructor
: Albert Hunter (Sociology)

SOCIOL 376-JR - Exploring the New Evolutionary Paradigm
Instructors:
Georgi Derluguian and Liubov Kurtynova-Derluguian (Sociology)    

Junior Research Seminars for 2003-2004

AMER ST 310 and COMP SCI 395 - Using Technology, Making History
Instructors
: Carl Smith (American Studies, English, and History) and Brian Dennis (Computer Science, Journalism)

GEN LA 395 - Sex, Race, & Modernism
Instructor
: Jennifer Brody (English)  

GEN LA 395 - Nanoscale Patterning & Systems
Instructor : Teri Wang Odom (Chemistry)