Our faculty are leaders on campus, author major books and articles, make key interventions in their fields, engage and inform the public, and receive national and international recognition for their scholarship, teaching, and service. See what our faculty and emeritus faculty have been working on this past year below. 

2024 Faculty Updates

Ikuko Asaka

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Eugene M. Avrutin

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Teresa Barnes

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Marsha E. Barrett

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Deepasri Baul

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Dave Beck

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James R. Brennan

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Claudia Ruth Brosseder

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Adrian Burgos

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Antoinette Burton

Antoinette Burton was active in the History department, serving on the Executive Committee and on numerous preliminary examination and dissertation committees.  She also continued in her ninth year as director of the Humanities Research Institute. She published essays in several edited collections, gave a number of presentations on the public humanities, and learned how to write Op Eds through the Public Voices Fellowship sponsored by the University of Illinois President’s office. Her pieces appeared in the Chicago TribuneTech Policy Press, the Philadelphia InquirerMs Magazine, and Public Seminar. She continued her work as chair of the faculty board at the University of Illinois Press and as a board member at Illinois Humanities. In summer 2024 her book Gender History: A Very Short Introduction, came out with Oxford University Press.

Sundiata Cha-Jua

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Tamara Chaplin

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Teri Chettiar

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Jerry Dávila

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Angela Diaz

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Augusto F Espiritu

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Peter Fritzche

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Daniel A. Gilbert

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Laura Frances Goffman

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Marc Hertzman

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Kristin Hoganson

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Craig M. Koslofsky

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Rosalyn La Pier

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Anna Jungeun Lee

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Ralph W. Mathisen

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Erik S. McDuffie

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Robert Michael Morrissey

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Kevin Mumford

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Mauro Nobili

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Yurida Ramírez

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John Randolph

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Leslie J. Reagan

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David Sepkoski

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Carol Symes

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Anna Whittington

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Roderick Ike Wilson

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2024 Emeriti Updates

James R. Barrett

Jim Barrett published "The Irish and Labor in the Industrial Era, 1880-1930s,” in The Routledge History of Irish America, eds. Cian T. McMahon and Kathleen P. Costello-Sullivan (New York, Routledge, 2024) and with Shelton Stromquist, A David Montgomery Reader: Capitalism and Workers Resistance, University of Illinois Press, 2024. An interview with Barrett by PhD alumnus Robert D. Sampson appeared in the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society , Vol. 117 No. 2 Summer 2024. He continues to coedit the University of Illinois Press series, The Working Class in American History, which now has more than 170 volumes in print. 

Richard W. Burkhardt

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Orville V Burton

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Kai-Wing Chow

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Clare Haru Crowston

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Kenneth M. Cuno

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Poshek Fu

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Caroline M. Hibbard

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Lillian E. Hoddeson

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Frederick E. Hoxie

My article, "Murder and Memory in Territorial Hawai'i: A Moloka'i Microhistory," published in the Western Historical Quarterly in 2023, received the 2024 Michael P. Malone Award for the best publication on state or territorial history. The award was announced at the Western Historical Association annual meeting on October 25, 2024.

 

Nils Jacobson

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Diane P. Koenker

Diane Koenker concluded her term as Director of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies in August 2023. In her remarks at her farewell party, she reflected on the highs of her tenure, including the hiring of 24 new permanent staff and the promotion of 26 academic staff since she took up her post in January 2018. In February 2023, she presented a paper, “How Far from Moscow? Soviet History and Its Challenges,” at a conference on “Survival Strategies of Ukraine and Russia,” at the Slavic Eurasian Research Center, University of Hokkaido, Sapporo, Japan. Her article, “The Strange Case of the Disappearing Soviet Waiter,” appeared in the July 2023 issue of Slavonic and East European Review.  She retired from UCL in January 2024 and continues to live in London, working on her book project on Soviet consumption in the 1960s.

Bruce Levine

During the past year I’ve been consulting on the creation of the Thaddeus Styevens and Lydia Hamilton Smith Center for History & Democracy, to be located in Lancaster, Pa. I’ve also submitted an essay, now under review, to the journal Historical Materialism on how the thinking among Russian socialists evolved in the early 20th century concerning the nature of the coming Russian revolution. That essay, in turn, will eventually become a chapter in a book about revolutions throughout the world that aim to secure democratic rights. I have already drafted three additional chapters for that book.

Harry M. Libersohn

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Joseph L Love

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John A. Lynn II

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Robert M. McColley

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Megan M. McLaughlin

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Evan M. Melhado

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Mark S. Micale

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Richard E. Mitchell

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Elizabeth H. Pleck

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David Prochaska

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Dorothee Schneider

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Mary Lee Spence

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Mark Steinberg

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Charles C. Stewart

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Ronald P. Toby

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Maria Todorova

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