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Assistant Professor. bimbola.akinbola@northwestern.edu. Bimbola Akinbola is Chicago-based artist and scholar. Working at the intersection of African diaspora studies, performance, visual culture, and postcolonial theory, Dr. Akinbola’s scholarly work is concerned with kinship and belonging, gender performance, and affect in the African diaspora.
djjohnson@northwestern.edu. Doris Johnson is a pioneer in the study of learning disabilities. Along with her colleague Helmer R. Myklebust, she is the author of Learning Disabilities: Educational Principles and Practice, a landmark book that became one of the foundational texts for understanding otherwise healthy children who have difficulty ...
Billy Siegenfeld. Professor. siggy@northwestern.edu. Billy Siegenfeld is a former jazz and rock drummer; a rhythm-driven actor-dancer-singer and stage director; the founder, choreographer, musical arranger, and ensemble performing member of the vocal-rhythmic theatre-movement company Jump Rhythm ® ( www.jumprhythm.org ); an author of essays ...
Assistant Professor. dotun.ayobade@northwestern.edu. Dotun Ayobade (he, his, him) holds a joint appointment as an Assistant Professor in Performance Studies and African American Studies. He studies how embodied forms of popular culture shape the meaning of community, justice, and activism in late twentieth century West Africa.
Communication Studies participate in a variety of student organizations and events, including those listed below. Debate Society Members of Northwestern's Debate Society, which dates back to 1855, have active schedules in the school year, often traveling to seven or ten intercollegiate tournaments a year, trips that are paid for by Northwestern.
The School of Communication is a community of creators. Students in our Radio/Television/Film, Theatre, and Performance Studies programs write, shoot, direct, and produce their own performances, films, television and web series, sketch and improv shows, and digital media projects. Our student scholars explore diverse areas of study that range ...
heather.hendershot@northwestern.edu. Heather Hendershot studies TV news, conservative media, political movements, and American film and television history. Her courses emphasize the interplay between creative, political, technical, and regulatory concerns, and how those concerns affect what we see on the screen (big or little).
