CHICAGO FIELD STUDIES

Liz McCabe is an Associate Professor of Instruction in CFS and has been teaching in the program since 2009. She teaches interdisciplinary humanities courses on work (for students interning in any field) and Chicago-centric civic engagement courses (for students in public interest internships). She serves as Academic Director of the immersive Engage Chicago summer program (a partnership of CFS and the Northwestern Center for Civic Engagement) and teaches the program’s centerpiece course on Chicago history and community engagement. Liz has served on nonprofit boards, coordinated arts-in-education programs, and developed discussion of public humanities and community-engaged pedagogy on and off campus. She holds a PhD from the NU English Department, where she occasionally teaches as well. Her research interests include the history, administration, and pedagogy of experiential education, the figure of “the intern” in popular culture, office fiction, and all things Chicago. She loves helping students navigate internships and think deeply about their work while they are doing it.