2018-08-16 - Brandon Nakashima went on a fruitful research trip this summer, preparing for his senior thesis this year. Brandon was the recipient of the Johannsen Scholarship for Promising Senior Honors Thesis Research....
2018-08-16 - It was an event that seemed to encapsulate the tumult of the 1960s. Police clashed violently with anti-war protesters in Chicago’s streets. Party factions waged political battle within the hall. What was happening in the 1968 Democratic Convention 50 years ago, and why? ...
2018-08-08 - Professor Mauro Nobili has been awarded a Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for $149,742 for his research project titled, "Restoring the African Past: A Synoptic Edition and Translation of Two West African Arabic Chronicles (Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...