UIC History faculty, students, and graduates continued to publish pathbreaking research, earn presitgious awards, and contribute to important public conversations about the past and present. UIC Faculty Accomplishments Publications Jonathan Daly (UIC Professor…
Twelve UIC undergraduates enjoyed a unique opportunity to travel to Poland this March through the Department of History’s inaugural Spring Break Study Abroad program. Professor Keely Stauter-Halsted, the Stefan and Lucy Hejna Endowed…
In a Wednesday afternoon ceremony on March 4, 2026, LAS Dean Lisa Freeman bestowed the medal reserved for LAS Distinguished Professors upon the neck of Jennifer Brier, Professor of History and Gender and…
Kevin Schultz and Lucy Wilson|Posted on December 03, 2025
UIC Faculty Accomplishments Books Danielle Beaujon (UIC Professor) published Criminalizing the Casbahs: Policing North Africans in Marseille and Algiers, 1918-1954, from Cornell University Press. As the description says, the book “explores how French…
“Wait, this is a scam, right?” So thought Nancy García-Vázquez (History, ’29) when, on the day of her high school graduation, she received an email from LAS Dean Lisa Freeman and Department of…
On Tuesday April 29th, UIC students convened in UH950 to talk about their internship experiences for an in-person and virtual audience of fellow interns, intern supervisors, prospective future interns, and the History Department…
Prof. Elizabeth Todd-Breland’s “co-authored” book – I Didn’t Come Here to Lie: My Life and Education – is now out officially from Haymarket Books! Although the book is positioned as a memoir of…
During his time at UIC, History alumnus Victor Leal-Painter (Teaching of History ’24) had an excellent run. He was a recipient of the prestigious Davee Scholarship for upcoming History majors and served as…
by Kevin M. Schultz “My history degree set me up perfectly to work in military intelligence,” says Maximillian Gambony (History, ’23). “I use the same skills here that I learned in all my history…
