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HISTORIANS CONDEMN ASSAULT ON CAPITOLHistory at Illinois joins fellow historians in condemning white supremacist attack on US Capitol
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Professor Rosalyn LaPier, an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe of Montana and Métis, has joined the faculty of the Department of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in fall 2022. Her focus includes environmental history, the history of the American West, and Native American/Indigenous history. She is the prize-winning author of Invisible Reality: Storytellers,...
A professor at the University of Illinois teamed up with local gun safety advocates in First Followers to take a deeper look a gun violence.
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- Sixteen University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students and recent graduates were offered Fulbright grants to pursue international education, research and teaching experiences around the globe this coming year. Another six Illinois students were named Fulbright alternates.
- White militarism has flourished in Russia under President Vladimir Putin’s rule, making it one of the most dangerous places in the world for racial violence, said history professor Eugene Avrutin.
- History Professor Emerita Maria Todorova has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest honors societies in the nation.
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