2025-08-18
- Two history professors received named scholar positions for their contributions in education and research in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.Professor Roderick Wilson, an associate professor in the Department of History and the Department of East Asian Languages and...
2025-08-14 - A new Spurlock Museum exhibit commemorates the 1985 Farm Aid Relief Concert
2025-08-14 - Graduate student Alex Jacobs teaches by integrating physical spaces with history
2025-08-14 - Professor Tayzhaun Glover joins the Department of History
2025-08-11 - Emeritus professor David Prochaska passed away on January 6, 2025 at the age of 79. Prochaska was a historian of colonialism and visual culture with a specialty in colonial Algeria. He was also interested in France and the Mediterranean, the anthropology of tourism, museum studies, urban history, and colonial urbanism. “David was a force. He traveled the world (33 countries) and spent a...
2025-08-05 - Digital historian and medievalist Kalani Craig joins the Department of History
2025-07-15 - There’s a quote from Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address in 1861 that the East Central Illinois Alliance of Braver Angels likes to remember as it works to bridge partisan divides: “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of...
2025-07-14 - Professor Yuridia Ramírez received a 2025 Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award from the Institute of Citizens & Scholars. The award comes with a $20,000 stipend to support her research.The award recognizes scholars who have...
2025-07-10 - Meet Austin Justice (BA,'20, history), an assistant editor for the Papers of Abraham Lincoln (PAL) at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum. The PAL project is dedicated to publishing every document written by or addressed to Abraham Lincoln. In addition to his role at PAL, Justice works remotely as an archives assistant for Northeastern University's Civil Rights and Restorative...
2025-06-30 - Recent graduate Anthony Erkan (BA'25, history and economics) was one of five University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students and recent graduates to receive a Fulbright grant to pursue international education, research, and teaching experiences around the globe this coming year. The ...
2025-06-26 - Professor Antoinette Burton, a professor of history and director of the Humanities Research Institute, received the Distinguished Award for Excellence in Public Engagement.
2025-06-16 - In the Department of History, a new award will provide opportunities for undergraduate students to gain hands-on research experience in the community.The Kathryn Oberdeck Public History Award Fund will honor the dedication to public history, community engagement, and social justice work...
2025-06-10 - Two history PhD students have been selected for the Humanities Without Walls Summer Bridge Program. The Humanities Without Walls (HWW) Summer Bridge Program is a collaborative partnership among HWW; Dr. Olivia Hagedorn, postdoctoral research associate with...
2025-06-09 - Professor Marc A. Hertzman received an honorable mention for the best book in the 2024 Latin American Studies Association Brazil Section Prizes for his book After Palmares: Diaspora, Inheritance, and the Afterlives of Zumbi. In After Palmares, Hertzman examines the history of Palmares, one of largest and longest-...
2025-06-05 - History professor Marsha Barrett and history and African American studies professor Erik McDuffie received named scholar positions for their contributions in education and research at the University of Illinois.Professor Barrett has been named a Helen Corley Petit Scholar for the 2025-2026 academic year. Barrett examines the political and social history of the United States during the...