The Chabraja Center for Historical Studies—founded in 2006 and named in 2010—promotes broad scholarly engagement with historical materials. Chabraja is pronounced "Tcha-BRAH-ya."
CCHS hosts an annual lunch lecture series and sponsors or co-sponsors a multitude of other campus events on the subject of history: conferences, lectures, panel discussions, seminars, workshops, and global graduate exchanges.
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston
Michael ALLEN (Northwestern University), author of Until the Last Man Comes Home: POWs, MIAs, and the Unending Vietnam War (2009)—Tuesd...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston
Danielle BEAUJON (UIC), author of Criminalizing the Casbahs: Policing North Africans in Marseille and Algiers, 1918–1954 (2025)—Thursda...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston
In collaboration with the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern (HEFNU) Robert SOMMER (independent scholar), author of The C...
