Digital and Public History | Department of History

History Faculty working in Digital and Public History

Born to teach

2026-04-27

Ruth Veida Mandala’s collaborative approach to history

Historic Native American robes to be displayed at Versailles exhibition

2025-11-17

Bob Morrissey stands at a table with a painted hide stretched out across it.

A monumental achievement for Reclaiming Stories project led by professor Robert Morrissey

Professor Kalani Craig named recipient of Study in a Second Discipline Program

2025-11-04

The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences has awarded funding to professor Kalani Craig and several other faculty members through the Study in a Second Discipline Program, which gives professors time and support to push...

History graduate student preserves local AIDS history

2025-10-27

Daniel Rodriguez reinvigorates a preservation project begun by professor Kathryn Oberdeck

Understanding education as a tool of liberation and empire in the Caribbean

2025-09-23

Professor Chelsey Smith joins the Department of History

History Harvest revives Farm Aid memories in Champaign for Spurlock exhibit

2025-08-14

A new Spurlock Museum exhibit commemorates the 1985 Farm Aid Relief Concert

Building software for history

2025-08-05

Digital historian and medievalist Kalani Craig joins the Department of History

New award for undergraduates honors public history pioneer Kathryn Oberdeck

2025-06-16

In the Department of History, a new award will provide opportunities for undergraduate students to gain hands-on research experience in the community.The Kathryn Oberdeck Public History Award...

Two new faculty members will join the Department of History this fall

2025-05-27

Kalani Craig (left), Tayzhaun Glover (right)

The Department of History is pleased to announce that two new faculty members will join our ranks in the fall. Our new colleagues will add to our strengths in digital history, public history and Caribbean history.Kalani Craig Professor Craig joins us from Indiana University (Bloomington) where...

How a PhD student combines his love of computers with history

2025-05-19

Richard Young posing in front of a prairie and mountain.

Even though Richard Young is pursuing his PhD in history, he has always been interested in computers. During his undergraduate years, Young and his friend, a computer science major, would get together over weekends to tell each other what they were learning about in their respective fields of...