Northwestern University

Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States.

After four years (1977-81) as Foundation Research Professor of Cultural Studies at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York, she moved to Northwestern University as Avalon Professor of the Humanities with a remit to link the studies of theology and anthropology, and spent three years at Princeton University.

Howard Saul Becker (April 18, 1928, August 16, 2023) was an American sociologist who taught at Northwestern University.

After receiving his PhD, he took up appointments at a series of universities: in 1968 at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois; in 1973 at the University of Zaire; in 1974 at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut; and finally moved to the University of Amsterdam in 1980, where he was a professor and chair of the department of cultural anthropology until his retirement in 2002.

He held the position of "permanent visiting" professor at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and "Theodor Heuss Professor" at The New School, New York City.

He also held positions at SUNY Buffalo and Northwestern University, both in the US. == Biography == Laclau studied history at the University of Buenos Aires and was a member of the PSIN (Socialist Party of the National Left) until 1969, when the British historian Eric Hobsbawm supported his admission to St Antony's College, Oxford, where he pursued graduate research until 1972.