2023-01-12
- As nearly 3,000 scholars gathered over the weekend for the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, even the attempts at institutional lightheartedness carried an edge.
2022-12-21 - We are delighted to announce the newest issue of the Undergraduate History Journal at Illinois! he issue features work by Illinois history majors on a variety of historical topics.
2022-12-21 - “Although some winter solstice traditions have changed over time, they are still a reminder of indigenous peoples’ understanding of the intricate workings of the solar system,” Prof. Rosalyn LaPier writes, and their “ancient understanding of the interconnectedness of the world.”
2022-12-15 - History professor Robert Morrissey wrote in his new book, “People of the Ecotone,” about how the ecology of the tallgrass prairie shaped the culture and created unique opportunities for the Indigenous people who lived there.
2022-12-09 - Members of the History@Illinois community mourn the passing of our beloved colleague and friend, Kathryn J. Oberdeck. Kathy joined the department in 1993 as a specialist in US cultural and intellectual history, with a focus on labor and working people. Whether writing about late 19th century urban cultural politics or researching the intersection of public and domestic spaces in the company town...
2022-12-09 - I'm a scholar of Native American history. But my real education came from working with Native people in the present.
2022-11-22 - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign history professor Robert Morrissey is working with an interdisciplinary group of scholars, tribal cultural experts and community members on a project that will reconnect the tribes with their tradition of hide painting and with the ceremonial robes in the Quai Branly Museum.
2022-11-01 - On the occasion of the first day of Native American Heritage Month the Department of History is pleased to announce the creation of a new cohort in Native American history.
2022-10-24 - Carol Symes, a professor of history and of medieval studies, is the editor of “The Medieval Globe,” a journal based at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. A special open access issue of the journal is devoted to evidence that the Black Death was killing people in Asia more than a century before it was seen in Europe.
2022-10-20 - Four from LAS receive honor for mid-career scholars.
2022-10-03 - Dr. Whittington earned an AB from Harvard and an MA in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at Stanford. In 2018 Whittington completed her dissertation, “Forging Soviet Citizens: Ideology, Identity, and Stability in the Soviet Union, 1930-1991,” at the University of Michigan. Before arriving at the University of Illinois, she held postdoctoral fellowships at the Higher School of Economics...
2022-09-20 - Tamara Chaplin's upcoming book explores a nearly lost chapter of lesbianism.
2022-09-14 - This morning LAS published a story announcing several named scholars from across LAS.
2022-08-29 - Professor Rosalyn LaPier, an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe of Montana and Métis, has joined the faculty of the Department of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in fall 2022. Her focus includes environmental history, the history of the American West, and Native American/Indigenous history. She is the prize-winning author of Invisible Reality: Storytellers,...
2022-07-26 - A professor at the University of Illinois teamed up with local gun safety advocates in First Followers to take a deeper look a gun violence.