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Congratulations to the recipients of 2024-2025 Department of History Awards

The Department of History is pleased to announce the winners of our 2024-2025 annual awards. These awards celebrate our faculty, staff, lecturers, undergraduate, and graduate students to thank them for their dedicated service to our department. They also provide funding and scholarships for their...
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Anthony Erkan - Ankara, Turkey and Berlin, Germany

In summer 2024, Anthony Erkan traveled to Ankara, Turkey and Berlin, Germany to research material for his thesis.
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Kristin Hoganson

Professor Kristin Hoganson receives Guggenheim Fellowship

Professor Kristin Hoganson is one of two University of Illinois professors to be awarded a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship. English professor Corey Van Landingham also received a fellowship. They are among 198 individuals working across 53 disciplines chosen...
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Illini Success report: 98% of history alums secure first destination soon after graduation

 An annual survey of recent graduates reports that 98% of history and history of art alumni who graduated during the 2023-2024 period secured their first destination within six months of graduating.  That figure...
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Eva Grein

Eva Grein is a senior majoring in history and minoring in secondary education. She is the Department of History's Social Media and Communications intern.
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Rachel Danna Mulick

Rachel Danna Mulick is a senior in history and Spanish and the Laible Undergraduate Intern in the University of Illinois Library Conservation Lab.
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Anthony Erkan

Anthony Erkan, a senior in history and economics, is the 2024–2025 Peter and Joan Hood Intern and a Fulbright ETA semi-finalist.
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Katelyn Barbour

Katelyn Barbour is a senior majoring in history and gender and women's studies. She is the managing editor of SourceLab, the journal of the University of Illinois' digital humanities collective.
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Izzy Sauer

Izzy Sauer is a senior in history and the current junior lead editor of the Undergraduate History Journal at Illinois.
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