Awards

The Department of History is pleased to announce the winners of our 2023-2024 annual awards. These awards celebrate our faculty, lecturers, undergraduate, and graduate students to thank them for their dedicated service to our department. They also provide funding and scholarships for their research...

The Department of History is proud to announce that Stefan Djordjevic, associate director of undergraduate studies and director of advising, has been awarded the LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising.  

Congratulations to Professor Leslie Reagan who has received the Robert W. Schaefer Professorship in Liberal Arts & Sciences.

History professor Yuridia Ramírez and Latina/Latino studies professor José de la Garza Valenzuela have been awarded 2023 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships.  Read more: https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1973254864...

Five University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professors have been named University Scholars in recognition of their excellence in teaching, scholarship and service. The award is presented by the University of Illinois System to faculty members from the Chicago, Springfield and Urbana...

Four from LAS receive honor for mid-career scholars.

Emeritus Professor Winton Solberg has been one of three awarded the highest campus honor.  The Chancellor's Medallion has only been awarded six times since it was first presented in 1999.  Ellen Swain, the Stewart S....

Another huge congratulations goes out! This one to Professor Erik McDuffie who is the recipient of a 2017 fellowship from the American Council of Learned...

Professor Emeritus John Lynn has been awarded the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize, the highest award that the Society for Military History ...

Join us in Congratulating Professor Ikuko Asaka who was just named as a Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors Scholar.Read Full...