2025-03-31
- Meet Hailey Baumstein (BA,'17, history; MA,'22, education policy, organization, & leadership), a social studies teacher, girls' cross country coach, and assistant track coach at Homewood-Flossmoor High School. She began her career at Thornton Township High School before transitioning to her current role, where she teaches U.S. government and economics. She credits her history degree...
2025-03-25 - Meet Ljubica Basica (BA,'18, history and political science; MBA,'23), a project manager at Google with Mandiant Cybersecurity Consulting. Her journey after graduating with a BA in history and political science led her from working in government, to completing her MBA and now working in technology. She said the critical thinking and analytical skills she learned as a history major have been...
2025-03-13 - Meet Thomas Dowling (BA,'18, history and political science), the co-founder and former CEO of TaxProper, a property tax software start-up acquired by Opendoor in 2022. Dowling is currently the director of TaxProper under Opendoor. He was also appointed by Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker to be the commissioner of the Illinois Student Assistance Commission, which provides tuition assistance to low-...
2025-03-11 - Stanislav Khudzik and Priyanka Zylstra, graduate students in the Department of History, have been selected as 2025-26 Humanities Research Institute graduate fellows. Campus Fellowships are awarded to Illinois faculty and graduate students who spend the year engaged in research and writing and participate in...
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.