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…
“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…
