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Past Recipients

2017 Recipients

Loren Ghiglione

Loren Ghiglione

Professor, Journalism, Medill

Loren Ghiglione, professor in the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications, is recognized for his outstanding and ongoing work to illuminate and support the Native American population on campus. That includes his leadership of the 2015-16 One Book One Northwestern steering group and the 2016-17 Native American and Indigenous Peoples Steering Group, his successful efforts to recruit Native American faculty and his engagement of these issues with undergraduate students.
E. Patrick Johnson

E. Patrick Johnson

Chair of African American Studies, WCAS, and Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies, School of Communication

E. Patrick Johnson, chair of African-American Studies in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies in the School of Communication, is recognized for his tireless work in building an interdisciplinary research, practice and community-focused Black Arts Initiative at Northwestern.