Awards

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...

 Professor Deepasri Baul has been awarded a Summer Faculty Fellowship from the Humanities Research Institute for her project “An Aversion to Progress: The Cultural Habitus of North Indian Caste-Histories.” Summer Faculty Fellowships provide resources to faculty members for research projects,...

Stanislav Khudzik and Priyanka Zylstra, graduate students in the Department of History, have been selected as 2025-26 Humanities Research Institute graduate fellows. Campus Fellowships are awarded to Illinois...

We're pleased to announce that our graduate program coordinator, Shannon Croft, has been awarded the Excellence Award for Graduate Contacts by the University of Illinois Graduate College. Croft has worked with the History department for nearly ten years.From the the...

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign history professor Kristin Hoganson has been awarded a 2024 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.“An NEH...

The Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has appointed professor Peter Fritzsche to its permanent faculty. CAS professors are selected...

We are pleased to announce that graduate student You Lan has been awarded the 2024 CCWH/Berks Graduate Student Fellowship Award. She will receive $1000 to support the completion of her dissertation.Lan's dissertation examines...

When professor Leslie J. Reagan entered her graduate program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison she and the other students in her cohort were told they would never get a job. The field of women's history was virtually nonexistent at the time.  “I thought, that's okay, I’ll work in a women'...

The Department of History is pleased to announce that professor Marc Hertzman was awarded an honorable mention for the prestigious James Alexander Robertson Prize for the best article published in the Hispanic American Historical Review by the Conference on Latin American History. His...

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...