2025-03-03
- We're pleased to announce that our graduate program coordinator, Shannon Croft, has been awarded the Excellence Award for Graduate Contacts by the University of Illinois Graduate College. Croft has worked with the History department for nearly ten years.
From the the Graduate College award announcement:
What truly stands out about Shannon is her compassion for her...
2025-02-20 - Leaving the Fight: Surrender, Prisoners of War, and Detainees in Western Warfare, a new book by emeritus professor of history John A. Lynn II proposes a novel approach to exploring the evolution of surrender...
2025-02-18 - History PhD students Grace Maria Eberhardt and B.W. Lawton wrote an op-ed in the News Gazette about Trump's federal ban on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Eberhardt is also a graduate minor in Latina/Latino studies. Movement from the margins: Trump’s federal ban on DEI and the legacy of ethnic studies On the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration, among the many executive...
2025-02-10 - History professor Antoinette Burton recently published Biocultural Empire: New Histories of Imperial Lifeworlds, a collection of essays that she co-edited with Renisa Mawani and Samantha Frost.
2025-02-04 - Editor's Note: The School of Information Sciences profiled history alumnus Adam Beaty and we have reshared it here with their permission. Adam Beaty (BA, '21, history) decided to pursue an MSLIS degree to combine his love of history, the arts, and community-centered spaces. This combination of interests culminated in a digital collection called ...
2025-01-27 - Professor Marsha Barrett recently joined fellow historians Julian Zelizer and Nicole Hemmer in a roundtable discussion on CBS Mornings to discuss Trump's lasting impact as he begins his second term. Watch the interview Professor Barrett also spoke with ABC News about...
2025-01-23 - Editor's Note: This story originally appeared on the College of LAS website in September 2022. We're resharing it to celebrate the recent publication of professor Chaplin's book, Becoming Lesbian: A Queer History of Modern France. Tamara Chaplin’s journey to uncover untold...
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 ...