2018-07-25
- In a recent issue of Perspectives, the monthly publication of the American Historical Association, Emily Skidmore (PhD, 2011), was quote extensively in an article on the rise of trans history as a field of study. The author of True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the 20th Century (NYU Press, 2017), Skidmore explains that “Even though the term...
2018-07-16 - The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences has announced the recipients of its 2018 annual alumni awards. The recipients represent a variety of backgrounds and degrees, from microbiology and economics to history, psychology, and mathematics. Their remarkable achievements are linked to their experiences and connections at the University of Illinois. Most recipients will be honored on campus...
2018-06-15 - Madeline Alvendia, a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champiagn, has been awarded a James Madison Fellowship by the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation of Alexandria, VA in its twenty-seventh annual fellowship competition. A total of 52 fellowships were awarded in 2018. James Madison Fellowships support further study of American history by college graduates who...
2018-05-31 - A new program in the Department of History is designed to create wider awareness of the careers and opportunities available to doctoral students while highlighting the diverse skills developed through graduate study. Mark Steinberg, a professor of history and director of graduate studies for the department, said that a new grant from...
2018-04-27 - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The mass spectacle that is now college football started small in the late 1800s, but the issues then were remarkably similar to today: amateurism versus professionalism, player eligibility, player safety, commercialization and the role of football in higher education. Some fought against the trends and forces that have since transformed the game; others...
2018-04-09 - The University of Illinois is reaffirming the significance of the arts and humanities by launching a new graduate fellowship program intended to attract the best and brightest students in these fields. The College of LAS is collaborating with the College of Fine and Applied Arts, the Graduate College, and the Office of the Provost to offer the Distinguished Graduate Fellowships in the Humanities...
2018-02-19 - The narratives of black emancipation and white settlement are usually separated in U.S. and Canadian history, but they are actually intertwined, says Professor Asaka.
2018-02-07 - Slavery and racism played their roles in planting beliefs about race and racial difference, but so did medicine, says Prof. Rana Hogarth in her new book. Many physicians in pre-Civil War America and the West Indies developed ideas that black bodies were different in basic ways: naturally immune to some diseases, more susceptible to others, more tolerant of pain, in need of specialized care...
2018-01-29 - The University's Open Illinois resource website provides undocumented and DACA students information and tools that will support their success at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. It is meant to highlight resources, services, and provide answers to both incoming and current students. Undocumented and DACA students make important...
2018-01-16 - The Humanities Without Walls Consortium, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, fosters interdisciplinary, collaborative research, teaching, and scholarship in the humanities, sponsoring new areas of inquiry that cannot be created or maintained without cross-institutional cooperation.
2017-11-21 - Thomas Dowling, a senior at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign pursuing a double major in political science and history, has been named a Rhodes Scholar. Dowling, of Chicago, is one of 32 students from the United States ...
2017-11-15 - Thomas Dowling, a double-major in history and political science, has been named Lincoln Academy Student Laureate Award, which recognizes university seniors for their excellence in curricular and extracurricular activities.
2017-11-15 - Several outstanding professors in the College of LAS have been selected by their peers to receive named professorial positions, which provide financial assistance to support their research and teaching duties. The positions were created through gifts to the college. For example, Richard Romano (BS, ’54, chemical engineering) and his wife, Margaret,...
2017-11-10 - Matt Eisenbrandt, a history alumnus, has spent his career litigating against perpetrators of abuse and atrocities in foreign countries who thought they had found safe haven in the United States and Canada.
2017-10-26 - Russia’s world-changing revolution came 100 years ago this November, but our view of it has been shaped by the repression and massive death that came in its wake, as well as by decades of Russian-U.S. conflict. History professor Mark Steinberg is taking a fresh look at the events of 1917, both in a book on the revolution and through a series of talks this fall, including stops in Moscow and at...