Explore Digital Chicago. Use the tags below to filter our faculty projects.
- 1893 World's Fair
- 19th century
- 20th Century
- Anthropology
- Archaeology
- Architecture
- Black Panthers
- Chicago Police Department
- Education
- Film Industry
- Fred Hampton
- Gender
- Geography
- Immigration
- Jane Addams
- Judaism
- Latin American History
- Music
- Photography
- Poetry
- Policing
- Politics
- Public Health
- Race
- Religion
- Rudy Lozano
- Shakespeare
- Social History
- Sports
- Theater
- Visual Arts
- Young Lords
- activism
- student protest
Lightweight: On Barney Ross, a Jewish Boxer in Chicago
This digital essay project examines the life of Barney Ross, the son of a murdered rabbi who became lightweight and welterweight boxing champion of the world in the 1930s. His study of Ross’s life explores the complex relation between Chicago, Jewishness, violence, and the faculty Fellow's family history.