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Inside HIST 203: Reacting to the Past
Imagine it’s 1913 and you’re in a tiny basement restaurant called Polly’s in Greenwich Village, New York. Change is in the air and intellectuals, artists, and activists gather to debate the issues of the day: women’s suffrage, labor unions, socialism, birth control, and anarchism. The nightly crowd...
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Learning world history, making Illini history: Inside our study abroad in Prague program
Stefan Djordjevic and Marco Jaimes wrote about the first year of our study abroad program HIST 354: 20th Century Europe in Prague. Applications are currently being accepted for the summer 2025 program. Tour one of Europe's most beautiful cities and visit locations where history was made:...
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Professor Anna Jungeun Lee joins the Department of History at the University of Illinois
This fall, the Department of History is excited to welcome Anna Jungeun Lee to our faculty as an assistant professor. Her primary appointment is in the Department of East Asian Languages and...
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Chelsey Smith joins the Department of History as a public humanities post-doctoral fellow
This fall, the Department of History is excited to welcome Chelsey Smith as a public humanities post-doctoral fellow. Smith is a historian of nineteenth-century Jamaican history and her research interests include education, race, and labor in the Caribbean and Latin America. The College...
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Professor Angela Diaz awarded Michael V.R. Thomason Book Award from Gulf South Historical Association
The Department of History is pleased to announce that Professor Angela Diaz has been awarded the Michael V. R. Thomason Book Award from the Gulf South Historical...
Fields of Study
The Department of History offers over 20 graduate fields of study, with varying geographic, chronological, and thematic emphases. Browse the links below to learn more about each field.
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Professor Deepasri Baul joins the Department of History at the University of Illinois
This fall, the Department of History is excited to welcome Deepasri Baul to our faculty as an assistant professor. Professor Baul is a historian of modern South Asia, specializing in urban history, property regimes, and religious...
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Graduate student spotlight: How STEM student Grace Maria Eberhardt became a historian
Graduate student Grace Maria Eberhardt didn’t think she would become a historian when she began as an undergraduate student at the University of Puget Sound. She initially wanted to study STEM, but...
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Graduate student spotlight: How STEM student Grace Maria Eberhardt became a historian
Graduate student Grace Maria Eberhardt didn’t think she would become a historian when she began as an undergraduate student at the University of Puget Sound. She initially wanted to study STEM, but after taking an African American studies class, she became more interested in ethnic studies and the...