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  • Kristin Hoganson
    Professor Kristin Hoganson receives Guggenheim Fellowship
    2025-04-11 - Professor Kristin Hoganson is one of two University of Illinois professors to be awarded a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship. English professor Corey Van Landingham also received a fellowship. They are among 198 individuals working across 53 disciplines chosen through a rigorous peer-review process from nearly 3,500 applicants. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial...
  • Deepasri Baul
    Professor Deepasri Baul awarded Summer Faculty Fellowship from Humanities Research Institute
    2025-04-07 -  Professor Deepasri Baul has been awarded a Summer Faculty Fellowship from the Humanities Research Institute for her project “An Aversion to Progress: The Cultural Habitus of North Indian Caste-Histories.” Summer Faculty Fellowships provide resources to faculty members for research projects, course development, or professional development. Baul is a historian of modern South Asia...
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    From history major to social studies teacher: Q&A with alumna Hailey Baumstein
    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...
  • Ljubica Basica
    From history major to Google project manager: Q&A with alumna Ljubica Basica
    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...
  • Thomas Dowling
    From history major to CEO: Q&A with alumnus Thomas Dowling
    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-...
  • Pictures of the two graduate students who have received the award
    Two history graduate students selected as 2025-26 Humanities Research Institute Fellows
    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...
  • Shannon Croft and Michelle Tomaszycki pose with their awards with Dean Wojtek Chodzko-Zajko
    Shannon Croft awarded Excellence Award for Graduate Contacts from Graduate College
    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...
  • John Lynn and book cover
    The evolution of surrender: New book by professor emeritus John A. Lynn II explores surrender from the middle ages to the present
    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...
  • Grace and BW
    "Movement from the margins: Trump’s federal ban on DEI and the legacy of ethnic studies" Op-ed by PhD students Grace Maria Eberhardt and B.W. Lawton
    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...
  • Antoinette Burton and book cover
    New anthology questions supremacy of humans in empire history: Q&A with co-editor Antoinette Burton
    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. 
  • Adam Beaty
    Alumnus Adam Beaty creates new digital collection that sheds light on queer nightlife in Champaign County
    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 ...
  • Marsha Barrett
    Professor Barrett interviewed by CBS Mornings and ABC News about Trump's second term
    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 the...
  • Tamara Chaplin
    The untold stories of the women of France: Professor Chaplin's new book explores a nearly lost chapter of lesbianism
    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....
  • Kristin Hoganson
    Professor Kristin Hoganson awarded NEH Fellowship
    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...
  • Morrisey with painted hides
    Paris research trip reconnects Native American tribes with historic painted robes
    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...

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