2021-04-09
- History Professor Kevin Mumford has been awarded a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship. Mumford studies race, politics and sexuality, and how struggles over social difference and belonging have unfolded in America.
2021-04-01 - “An environmental lens on historical problems, and a historical lens on environmental problems” is an apt summary of History 202 (American Environmental History), a course offered by History Professor Bob Morrissey that was recently converted from an in-person class to an asynchronous virtual one using fresh, creative approaches—even a video game.
2021-03-19 - The Illinois History Department is delighted to welcome Assistant Professor Yuridia Ramírez to its faculty! Dr. Ramírez's work on diasporic, indigenous, and racial histories informs her dedication to community organization efforts.
2021-03-15 - Professor Leslie Reagan discusses the history of spit-hoods in law enforcement and argues that their use should be banned in light of their connection to practices of control rooted in racism and slavery.
2021-02-25 - See what has been transpiring this past year. Read updated information about faculty, how COVID is affecting everything on campus, graduate program updates, and undergraduate program updates. Read the newsletter here: 2021 Newsletter
2021-02-25 - Illinois history professor Craig Koslofsky’s new book, co-written with University of Zurich history professor Ricardo Zaugg, translates the rediscovered journal of a German barber-surgeon in the Atlantic slave trade.- 2021-02-02 - Professors Marc Hertzman and Craig Koslofsky are among the 20 faculty members named as Center for Advanced Study associates or fellows for the 2021-22 academic year.
- 2021-02-02 - The latest episode of the Journalism History podcast features Brian Campbell, a recent Ph.D. graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, discussing his research on the impact of the relationship between the Black press and the Negro Leagues. The Black press helped facilitate desegregation within Major League Baseball. Many Negro Leagues ballplayers traveled abroad to...
2021-02-02 - Animals played a central role in the British Empire. Sources of food and labor, animals symbolized the power of the empire. They also hindered the efforts of the British to control colonized lands, and they destroyed ecosystems. A new book examines their relationships with imperial authorities and colonists through essays about 26 animals – one for each letter of the alphabet, from Ape and Boar...
2021-01-27 - History at Illinois faculty and their colleagues share their reflections and family reminiscences on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
2020-11-19 - A global Pandemic, wildfires and hurricanes have made 2020 a year for catastrophic thinking, so a new book with that title seems appropriate. But don't mistake David Sepkoski's "Catastrophic Thinking" as a doomsday warning about the future. It's focused instead on how we got here--how our current-day concerns regarding threats to both the planet and the human race came to be. Author David...
2020-10-15 - Congratulations to History Professor Leslie Reagan who has been named as one of the four LAS recipients of the Public Voices Fellowship. The Public Voices Fellowship pairs up faculty members from largely unrepresented groups in the news media with veteran journalists, as a way to amplify voices of expertise on pressing issues.
2020-10-12 - The role of baseball in Latino life in the U.S. is the focus of "¡Pleibol!," an artifact collection project organized by the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Adrian Burgos, Professor of History, was recruited as the lead consultant for this project. Four years of research has culminated in his most recent book, "¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Leagues." Co-authored with...
2020-10-09 - Maria Todorova, Gutgsell Professor of History, explores the lives and ideas of early socialists in her new book, "The Lost World of Socialists at Europe's Margins: Imagining Utopia, 1870s-1920s." Todorova says that her book "seeks to illustrate the lives of those who pursued the socialist idology and the utopia implicit in it."
2020-10-05 - Teresa Barnes, Professor of History and Gender and Women’s Studies and the Director of the Center for African Studies, has written a recent article featured in the George Washington University’s "History News Network." In this article, Professor Barnes draws striking parallels between South Africa’s Apartheid and the current political atmosphere in the US. Click ...