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.
2022-06-13 - Sixteen University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students and recent graduates were offered Fulbright grants to pursue international education, research and teaching experiences around the globe this coming year. Another six Illinois students were named Fulbright alternates.
2022-05-10 - White militarism has flourished in Russia under President Vladimir Putin’s rule, making it one of the most dangerous places in the world for racial violence, said history professor Eugene Avrutin.
2022-05-03 - History Professor Emerita Maria Todorova has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest honors societies in the nation.
2022-04-13 - We rely on scientists to understand the structure and behavior of our world. What happens when a scientist’s ability to separate science from ideology comes into question—and they happen to be one of the most renowned scientists in their field?
Faculty members, staff, teaching assistants honored with Campus Awards for Excellence in Instruction2022-04-07 - The Campus Awards for Excellence in Instruction were awarded to faculty members, staff and graduate teaching assistants at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign this week for excellence in teaching, mentoring and advising.
2022-02-18 - HRI Research Cluster funds support the efforts of scholars with shared interests to explore subjects or problems which they might lack the resources to do on their own.
2022-02-09 - Professor Leslie Reagan will be featured in a discussion about the Illinois Reproductive Health Act on Sunday March 6 from 2:00-3:30. The panel is co-sponsored by the Chicago Women's History Center and the Chicago Public Library's Women's History Month Committee. The panel will also feature a state legislator and two reproductive justice organizers.
2022-01-31 - Through his experiences, he’s learned that students have histories to teach him