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Phone number: 847-467-5457
Office location: 3-128 Crowe
alicia.nunez@northwestern.edu
Alicia V. Nuñez is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She completed her PhD at Northwestern University in 2023. Alicia examines the intersections of childhood with lived migratory experiences in literature, visual, and music culture. Her work focuses on migrant children and the diverse ways migrants tend to survive under institutional radars, in the shadows. In migration studies, Alicia’s work explores immigration policy and detention procedures in the United States and in Mexico. As a Central Americanist, Alicia explored how “problem child” narratives have been used to historically depict the Central American region. More broadly, Alicia’s interdisciplinary projects dialogue with global issues such as mass displacement due to climate change and mass incarceration.
Alicia has a lifelong passion for teaching and values non-hierarchical methods of instruction in the classroom. Alicia has taught at Northwestern, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and UChicago. Previously, she worked with the Northwestern Prison Education Program as director and program coordinator at Cook County Jail and various youth detention centers with the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice.
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Phone number: 847-467-5457
Office location: 3-128 Crowe
shai.zamir@northwestern.edu
Shai Zamir is the Sava Ranisavljevic Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies. He is a historian of the early modern Iberian world and specializes in the history of the family and immigration, Jewish and Sephardi histories, and religious polemics. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and an MA from Tel Aviv University where he studied in the Adi Lautman Program for Outstanding Students. He also spent a year at Hadar Yeshivah in Manhattan studying Talmud. He currently works on two projects: a book manuscript on the social and cultural history of friendship in the early modern Iberian world, and essay-long studies of Jews and New Christians in less studied parts of the Spanish empire. His work was supported by the American Historical Association; Center for Jewish History; John Carter Brown Library; Casa de Velázquez and other institutions.
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Shai Zamir