“Growing up, I never liked history,” says Lauren Khanano, a first-year History major. For Lauren, hating history made good sense. Khanano’s family are Syrian war refugees, part of the Assyrian minority in…
Rodrigo Vega (History ’28) has a dream to one day work as an attorney for the ACLU or the NAACP. Inspired by the power of historically powerful legal decisions that went on to…
The Department of History at UIC had an exceptional Fall 2024 semester, with faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates earning significant recognition across multiple areas of scholarship and public engagement. Publications Prof. John Balserak…
Faculty Accomplishments Ralph Keen won the 2023 Distinguished Teaching Award from the American Catholic Historical Association. Malgorzata Fidelis’s 2022 book, Imagining the World from Behind the Iron Curtain: Youth and the Global Sixties…
The Department of History held its annual Gilbert Osofsky Lecture and Ceremony on Wednesday, April 24 before one hundred some-odd guests in the Cardinal Room of Student Center East. Barnard College’s Premilla Nadasen…
We’re delighted to invite you to this year’s Gilbert Osofsky Lecture, the Department of History’s annual end-of-year celebration, held on Wednesday, April 24 at 2:00 p.m. This year, in addition to welcoming friends…
The UIC Department of History’s newly revived Graduate Student History Conference took place on Saturday, March 9, featuring conferees from all over the country on a delightfully wide range of topics. Katy Evans,…
Please join us in congratulating Adam Goodman, the winner of this year’s UIC Rising Star Award for Humanities, Arts, Design, and Architecture. The Rising Star Award is “bestowed on individuals who show exceptional…
On Saturday, March 2, the UIC Department of History hosted more than 100 high school students from eleven Illinois high schools for the state championships of the Academic Decathlon. More than fifty…
On Wednesday, February 28, UIC’s Department of History hosted ninth graders from Farragut Career Academy in Little Village at UIC to discuss climate change and deliberate policy in a Model UN format for…
