05/19/2020 - Kenneth Cuno, professor of the modern Middle East, received the Illinois Student Government Teaching Excellence Award. This award is given by students to recognize and thank excellent instructors at...
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05/08/2020 - History professor, Carol Symes, who specializes in medieval studies, along with professors in anthropology and French and Italian, compare past plagues with the current COVID-19 health crisis.
04/27/2020 - Carol Symes, professor of medieval history, lectures about the 14th-century bubonic plague, or "Black Death," and what we can learn from it in light of the current COVID-19 pandemic.
04/22/2020 - Assistant Professor of History, Rana Hogarth, has been named as one of LAS's 2020-2021 Helen Corley Petit Scholars for her contributions in education and research.
04/22/2020 - Saniya Ghanoiu, Department of History graduate student, has been awarded the sixth annual Graduate Student Leadership Award by The Graduate College.
04/21/2020 - Epidemics often bring a search for scapegoats, with anti-Asian harassment in the wake of COVID-19 as the latest example. Rana Hogarth, Assistant Professor of History, points to social and political...
04/13/2020 - David Sepkoski, the Thomas M. Seibel Chair in History of Science, has been named a 2020 Geggenheim Fellow. He will use his fellowship to to work on a book about scientific debates in recent decades...
04/06/2020 - The History Department at the University of Illinois condemns the repeated use of the racist phrase “Chinese virus” to identify Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
03/20/2020 - The New York Times describes Peter Fritzsche's new book, Hitler's First 100 Days, as "elegant and sobering."
02/14/2020 - We are delighted to announce that Professor Marsha Barrett has been honored as a Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors (LEAP) Scholar by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for her...
02/10/2020 - The Department of History heartily congratulates Professor Rana Hogarth for winning the LAS Dean's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and PhD Candidate Beth Ann Williams for winning the...
01/14/2020 - Through the years, Professor Mauro Nobili has pieced together evidence that shows the Tarikh al-fattash, a West African chronicle written in Arabic that is widely believed to have been produced in...
11/26/2019 - History major Taylor Mazique's 'Election Candidates Crash Course' galvanizes first-time voters. “Yes, you’re 18, but you can vote,” Taylor says. “You have the right to vote, and your vote will...
11/22/2019 - Antoinette Burton, professor of history, has been named the Maybelle Leland Swanlund Endowed Chair, and Jeffrey Moore, a professor of chemistry, has been named the Stanley O. Ikenberry Endowed Chair...
11/05/2019 - Professor David Sepkoski works to realize the potential of bringing together the studies of STEM and humanities.
