Faculty

“Although some winter solstice traditions have changed over time, they are still a reminder of indigenous peoples’ understanding of the intricate workings of the solar system,” Prof. Rosalyn LaPier writes, and their “ancient understanding of the interconnectedness of the world.”

History professor Robert Morrissey wrote in his new book, “People of the Ecotone,” about how the ecology of the tallgrass prairie shaped the culture and created unique opportunities for the Indigenous people who lived there.

Members of the History@Illinois community mourn the passing of our beloved colleague and friend, Kathryn J. Oberdeck. Kathy joined the department in 1993 as a specialist in US cultural and intellectual history, with a focus on labor and working people. Whether writing about late 19th century urban...

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign history professor Robert Morrissey is working with an interdisciplinary group of scholars, tribal cultural experts and community members on a project that will reconnect the tribes with their tradition of hide painting and with the...

On the occasion of the first day of Native American Heritage Month the Department of History is pleased to announce the creation of a new cohort in Native American history.

Carol Symes, a professor of history and of medieval studies, is the editor of “The Medieval Globe,” a journal based at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. A special open access issue of the journal is devoted to evidence that the Black Death was killing people in Asia more than a century...

Four from LAS receive honor for mid-career scholars.

Professor Adrian Burgos, Jr. was featured in a segment on ESPN regarding Cuban baseball defectors who are left stranded in the Dominican Republic when their baseball dreams...

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...

CHECK OUT www.lavidabaseball.com It's a brand new website launched by the National Baseball Hall of Fame with our own ...