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 Women...
2024-04-22 - The Department of History is pleased to announce the winners of our 2023-2024 annual awards. These awards celebrate our faculty, lecturers, undergraduate, and graduate students to thank them for their dedicated service to our department. They also provide funding and scholarships for their research and education and honor the excellence of their work. We are grateful to the support of our donors...
2024-04-18 - An annual study of recent alumni reports 94% of history majors who graduated during the most recent 2022-2023 period secured their first destination within six months of commencement. Of that figure, 56% of new graduates found employment, and 38% sought further education such as graduate or professional school. The median salary for new history alumni who graduated starting in May 2022...
2024-04-18 - The call for reparations for people of African descent to compensate for slavery has a long history, but it has been discussed more broadly and gained support in recent years. Illinois, California and New York have established commissions to examine how to address the repercussions of slavery and racial discrimination, and several cities have done so as well. Last year, Evanston, Illinois,...
2024-02-22 - The History Department is delighted to welcome Professor Laura Goffman, our new Assistant Professor in Middle Eastern history. Goffman is an historian of public health, empire, and social change in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Peninsula.
2024-02-13 - The Department of History is proud to announce that Stefan Djordjevic, associate director of undergraduate studies and director of advising, has been awarded the LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising.
2024-02-01 - Matthew DiCianni (BA, ’07, history and political science) is a labor and...
2023-10-31 - Dr. Adrian Burgos, Jr., a professor of history at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, studies individuals from Latin America came to, worked in, and were recruited to play baseball in the U.S. Read more: https://www.diverseeducation.com/from-the-magazine/...
2023-09-26 - When huge herds of bison roamed the Great Plains... Read more: https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/859024435.
2023-09-22 - Congratulations to Professor Leslie Reagan who has received the Robert W. Schaefer Professorship in Liberal Arts & Sciences.
2023-09-01 - See who in the History Department received new ranks for 2023-2024.
2023-08-17 - Illinois public schools will be required to teach students about Native American history in the state beginning with the 2024-25 school year.
2023-08-08 - Professor Dave Beck discusses the history of Native American boarding schools in Illinois with Northern Public Radio.
2023-06-29 - An educational read by Professor Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua on Juneteenth has been published on the Library of Congress website.
2023-04-10 - Get to know the story of Palmares, an autonomous settlement founded by people escaping slavery in Brazil in the 1600s. Watch it on TEDEd: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-kingdom-hidden-in-brazil-marc-adam-hertzman-flavio-dos-santos-gomes