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Professor Reagan retires after 33 years

Emeritus professor David Prochaska passed away on January 6, 2025 at the age of 79. Prochaska was a historian of colonialism and visual culture with a specialty in colonial Algeria. He was also interested in France and the Mediterranean, the anthropology of tourism, museum studies, urban history,...

Leaving the Fight: Surrender, Prisoners of War, and Detainees in Western Warfare, a new book by emeritus professor of history...

After 36 years of teaching at the University of Illinois, our colleague Kai-wing Chow retired in May 2024. Chow is a highly esteemed historian of China with an international reputation. His areas of expertise include Chinese...

Illinois history professor Po-Shek Fu wrote about how Hong Kong media was used in a cultural cold war in Asia and the effects it had on the political and cultural environments in Hong Kong.

I'm a scholar of Native American history. But my real education came from working with Native people in the present.

University of Illinois Emeritus Professor Winston Solberg's extraordinary life and career took him from Omaha Beach to the Ardennes during the Battle of the Bulge, to the faculty of Harvard, West Point and Yale, and finally to the UIUC History Department.

Emeritus Professor Winton Solberg has been one of three awarded the highest campus honor.  The Chancellor's Medallion has only been awarded six times since it was first presented in 1999.  Ellen Swain, the Stewart S....

Join us in congratualating Professor Maria Todorova, who has been awarded an Honorary Doctor by Panteion University in Athens, Greece,...

Emeritus Professor Fred Hoxie was recently interviewed on ciLiving by Matt Metcalf about the...