2025-01-16
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign history professor Kristin Hoganson has been awarded a 2024 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.
“An NEH fellowship is a prestigious and highly competitive award that recognizes stellar scholarly contributions in...
2025-01-16 - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign history professor Robert Morrissey traveled to a Paris museum in November to see four ceremonial robes created more than 300...
2025-01-09 - In the 1950s, the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco) partnered with the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) to conduct medical research on the eye disease trachoma. Aramco spent over $2 million on the project with the goal of developing a vaccine. In her new book, Disorder and Diagnosis: Health and Politics...
2025-01-07 - The Stamps Scholars program recently profiled scholarship recipient Graciela Best in their newsletter, Aspire. It has been reprinted with their permission.
2024-12-19 - The Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has appointed professor Peter Fritzsche to its permanent faculty. CAS professors are selected based on their outstanding scholarship, and the appointments are one of the highest forms of campus...
2024-12-19 - Editor's note: This story originally appeared on the Humanities Research Institute website. Humanities in Action (HIA) is a semester-long, paid community engagement program for humanities students at the University of Illinois. This collaboration between We CU Community Engaged Scholars and the...
2024-12-16 - Editor's note: This story originally appeared on the Prairie Research Institute website. Amanda Quealy is a sophomore majoring in history and anthropology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. As an undergraduate researcher at the ...
2024-12-12 - The Midwest played a central role in the growth of Black freedom movements in the 20th century. It was a key site for incubating and expanding the ideas of political activist Marcus Garvey, not only in the U.S., but globally, said University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor of African American studies and ...
2024-12-09 - We are pleased to announce that graduate student You Lan has been awarded the 2024 CCWH/Berks Graduate Student Fellowship Award. She will receive $1000 to support the completion of her dissertation. Lan's dissertation examines how Chinese diasporic communities in early 20th-century California and Guangdong navigated,...
2024-12-02 - As an oral historian, Illinois history professor Yuridia “Yuri” Ramírez records the stories of people who have never been written about in history books. “These people have, in some ways, made the most impactful legacies in their communities, and people don’t know...
2024-11-29 - 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 intellectual history, history of printing and publishing, and new cultural history. His works have been...
2024-11-19 - Editors note: This piece originally appeared on the Prairie Research Institute Website. Meet Alexander Rushing, who usually goes by Sasha, a Visiting Scientific Specialist in Historic Mining & Geology at the...
2024-11-18 - Professor Peter Fritzsche recently wrote an op ed in The Forward about the 2024 presidential election. Voters elected Hitler because they liked his fascist promise. Trump’s reelection repeats that history "The end of the presidential campaign was characterized by broad charges that President-elect Donald Trump is a fascist. Vice President Kamala Harris and her surrogates invited...
2024-11-08 - When professor Leslie J. Reagan entered her graduate program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison she and the other students in her cohort were told they would never get a job. The field of women's history was virtually nonexistent at the time. “I thought, that's okay, I’ll work in a women's bookstore. Little did I know that most of those independent bookstores would disappear and that...