2026-04-27 - Ruth Veida Mandala’s collaborative approach to history
2026-04-27 - The Department of History is pleased to announce the winners of our 2025-2026 annual awards. These awards celebrate our faculty, staff, undergraduate, and graduate students to thank them for their dedicated service to our department. They also provide funding and scholarships for their research and education and honor the excellence of their work. We are grateful to the support of our donors for...
2026-04-24 - Mikki Kendall’s journey from history major to best-selling author
2026-04-23 - Lyndon Shi, a sophomore majoring in history and East Asian languages and cultures, is one of two University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students to receive a Boren Award.David L. Boren Scholarships and Fellowships are funded by the ...
2026-04-23 - The 2026 Undergraduate History Conference, “Reflections of Power,” took place April 17-18 and was hosted by the Undergraduate History Journal at Illinois in partnership with Phi Alpha Theta’s Epsilon Chapter. The weekend consisted of six themed panels featuring 18 undergraduates each presenting original research on various topics related to the dynamics of power. On Friday, history...
2026-04-16 - Q&A with history alumna Jensen Rehn
2026-04-16 - W.D. and Sara E. Trowbridge Professor Peter Fritzsche was awarded the King Broadrick-Allen Award by the Campus Honors Program (CHP) in recognition of his outstanding teaching of Chancellor's Scholars and his distinguished service to the CHP mission. Fritzsche was nominated by students in the program. He has taught a variety of classes for Chancellor's Scholars on the history of the...
2026-04-13 - Interview with Stefan Djordjevic
2026-03-30 - How Habsburg historian Marco Jaimes engages students in the classroom
2026-03-24 - Q&A with alumna Hanna Jin
2026-02-27 - The College of LAS has awarded history alumna Mikki Kendall (BA, '05) with the 2026 Alumni Achievement Award. Kendall is a writer, diversity consultant, and public speaker, who has been invited to PBS News, NPR, the Chicago Public Library, the American Library in Paris, WGN, and WNYC, and has published essays around the world. She is the New York Times-bestselling author of Hood...
2026-02-27 - Professor Rosalyn LaPier and graduate students Owen MacDonald and Cheryl Trauscht received a fellowship.
2026-02-24 - At Risk U will examine challenges to democracy and academic freedom in U.S. universities.
2026-02-23 - It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Kevin Mumford, professor of history in the Department of History. Kevin joined the Department of History in 2012 and was an expert in African American history, Race Relations, History of Sexuality, and Urban history. His research focused on race, politics, and sexuality in modern America, and how struggles over social difference...
2026-02-19 - Hertzman and Jaimes are two of the 19 awardees of the College of LAS 2026 teaching and advising awards.