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Professor Robert Morrissey joins College of LAS as Associate Dean for Technology & Online Learning
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...
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Graduate student Dale Mize works with The Land Connection to promote sustainable agriculture
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...
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Notes from the Field: Graduate student Grace Maria Eberhardt follows the trail of the Eugenics Record Office
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...
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Notes from the Field-A Trip to the East Coast: Following the Trail of the Eugenics Record Office
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...
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Undergraduate student Justin Wytmar awarded Beinecke Scholarship
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...
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The Second Battle for Africa: Garveyism, the US Heartland, and Global Black Freedom
Erik S. McDuffie, author, Duke University Press, 2024
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Russell Wigginton (2001)
Russell Wigginton (PhD, '01, History) is the president of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Russell Wigginton (PhD, '01, History) featured in Illinois Alumni Magazine
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....