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Professor Marc Hertzman receives honorable mention for James Alexander Robertson Prize from Conference on Latin American History
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...
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"My family lived the horrors of Native American boarding schools–why Biden’s apology doesn’t go far enough," op-ed by professor Rosalyn LaPier
Professor Rosalyn LaPier wrote an op-ed in The Conversation about President Biden's apology for the US government policy of sending Native American children to Indian boarding schools.My family lived the horrors of Native American boarding schools–why Biden’s apology doesn’t go far...
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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...
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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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Professor Angela Diaz joins the Department of History at the University of Illinois
This fall, the Department of History is excited to welcome Angela Diaz to our faculty as an associate professor. Professor Diaz is a Civil War era southern historian. Her research interests include the Gulf South, U.S. territorial...
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Professor Marsha Barrett receives national media attention for new book
Professor Marsha Barrett has received national media attention for her new book Nelson Rockefeller’s Dilemma: The Fight to Save Moderate Republicanism. Barrett has...
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History professors make inroads on scholarship and research in the time between academic years
Researching is like putting together a puzzle you don’t have all the pieces for, according to history professor Anna Whittington. Sometimes you don’t even know what the puzzle...
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Professor Marsha Barrett examines Nelson Rockefeller’s career as a lens for Republican Party’s rightward shift
Politician and businessman Nelson Rockefeller was seen as a moderate or liberal Republican even as he embraced conservative policies as the Republican Party shifted to the right in the 1960s and ‘70s.University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign history...