2024-07-22
- We’re pleased to announce that professor Robert Morrissey has accepted a position in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences as an Associate Dean for Technology and Online Learning. In this role, he will provide strategic leadership of the college’s technology affairs and assure reliable and secure information technology...
2024-07-15 - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign history doctoral student Dale Mize is using storytelling to help raise awareness about food sourcing through summer research interviews on three area farms that use sustainable practices and regenerative land use systems. He is one of five students participating in the 2024 Humanities Without Walls Summer Bridge experience through the U. of. I. ...
2024-07-11 - In the summer of 2024, graduate student Grace Maria Eberhardt traveled to the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Long Island and the American Philosophical Society archive in Pennsylvania. She was one of the recipients of the 2024 William and Virginia Waterman Scholarship which, in addition to a grant from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, helped fund her trip. Read about her...
2024-07-01 - Justin Wytmar, who recently completed his junior year at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is among 20 students nationally who were awarded the Beinecke Scholarship. The Beinecke award supports graduate study in the arts, humanities or social sciences. Illinois is one of 135 colleges and universities annually invited to nominate one...
2024-06-13 - Russell Wigginton (PhD, '01, History) is the president of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee. A profile about his career was the cover story of the Summer 2024 issue of Illinois Alumni magazine. Read the feature
2024-06-11 - This year Ernest Crim III (BA, '09, history) was our convocation speaker. Crim is the founder of Crim’s Cultural Consulting. Through his work, he speaks to companies, middle and high schools, educators, colleges, and community groups and uses Black historical narratives to empower and educate. He was also recently honored with the...
2024-06-11 - The Department of History is proud to announce professor Teri Chettiar has been selected as a Conrad Humanities Scholar. The Conrad Humanities Scholars Award recognizes promising mid-career scholars and provides financial support for continued achievement,...
2024-06-10 - The Department of History is pleased to announce that professor Jerry Dávila has been selected for the Presidential Fellows Program. Dávila holds the Jorge Paulo Lemann Chair in Brazilian History and is the Executive Director of the Illinois Global Institute. This prestigious program supports...
2024-06-07 - Charles J. Shields (BA, English, '75; MA, History, '79) is the author of 20 nonfiction books for young readers, and biographies of Harper Lee, John Williams, Kurt Vonnegut, and Lorraine Hansberry. He recently retired after a successful 25 year career as a writer where he combined his interest in literature with the research skills he gained as a historian. His favorite part of the job? The...
2024-05-23 - Federal policy toward Native American tribal nations in the first half of the 20th century sought to end the government’s legal and political relationship with tribes. A new book by University of Illinois history professor David Beck looks at one aspect of...
2024-05-21 - Professor Marsha Barrett, an expert on the political and social history of the US during the 20th century, was recently interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered. The NPR piece asked if our current political and social climate is a mirror of 1968. Barrett told NPR "it makes sense that people are looking for historical examples to understand what's happening now. But 1968, may not be the best one...
2024-05-09 - How Black history changed Ernest Crim III's life When Ernest Crim III (BA, ’09, history) first started at the University of Illinois, he thought he wanted to be a psychology major. He was the friend that everyone confided in, so he thought “hey, maybe I want to be a psychologist, right?” Then, in the second semester of his freshman year, he took a Black history course taught by professor...
2024-05-06 - Carol Symes, a professor of history at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is vice president of the campus chapter of the American Association of University Professors. Symes spoke with News Bureau education editor Sharita Forrest about a...
2024-04-29 - Professor Rosalyn LaPier was interviewed on April 25, 2024 on WILL's The 21st about the return of land to Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation. On April 19, the U.S. Department of the Interior placed portions of the Shab-eh-nay Reservation land into trust for Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, making it the only federally recognized Tribal Nation in Illinois....
2024-04-22 - The Department of History is pleased to announce that three new faculty members (subject to board approval) will join our ranks this fall. Our new colleagues will add to our strengths in South and East Asian history, and nineteenth century United States history. Deepasri Baul Deepasri Baul, currently the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at the Asian University for...