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...
2017-09-28 - When and where professional athletes have the right to voice their political opinions became an issue following comments by President Donald Trump aimed at players in the NFL. History professor Adrian Burgos Jr. focuses his research on the history of U.S. sports, specifically as it relates to minority participation in sports, with books on the history of Latinos in professional baseball.- 2017-09-20 - Hear Prof. Leslie Reagan and PhD candidate Nathan Tye talking about Illinois' connection to Agent Orange in the Vietnam War on WILL radio program, The 21st. From the 21st: "During the Vietnam War, the United States sprayed more than twenty million gallons of herbicides that were meant...
2017-09-14 - Health issues arising from Agent Orange exposure during the Vietnam War have altered ideas about war wounds and the cause of birth defects, says U. of I. history professor Leslie Reagan, who specializes in medical history. Her future book on the subject will examine the history of the herbicide’s effects upon human health, as well as the political and cultural movements that arose as a result, in...
2017-06-26 - Emeritus Professor Winton Solberg has been one of three awarded the highest campus honor. The Chancellor's Medallion has only been awarded six times since it was first presented in 1999. Ellen Swain, the Stewart S. Howe Student Life and Culture Archivist, noted "...
2017-06-21 - Professor Adrian Burgos, Jr. was featured in a segment on ESPN regarding Cuban baseball defectors who are left stranded in the Dominican Republic when their baseball dreams are not realized.