Professor Leo Schelbert, a historian of American immigration and especially of Swiss migration to the United States, died March 30, 2022, having just turned 93. Schelbert got his PhD in 1966 from Columbia…
The Department of History adopted a new mission statement on Wednesday, April 6, 2022. Mission Statement: The Department of History at the University of Illinois Chicago seeks to explore and understand the past…
The Department of History is saddened to report the sudden death of Nicole Jordan, a member of this Department since 1984. A specialist in twentieth-century Central European and French history, Prof. Jordan received…
Student Accomplishments Karl Kuehner was selected for to join the Mellon-funded Newberry Library seminar on “The Archive: Theory, Form, Practice.” Ismael Biyashev named one of the Resident Graduate Scholars at the Institute for…
Victor Leal-Painter, class of ’25, fell in love with history early. As a young child, he would watch documentaries on TV and absorb all the information he could. He especially loved ancient Egypt…
The Department of History is sad to announce the death of Richard S. Levy, who taught in this Department for 49 years before his retirement two years ago. An outstanding teacher and a…
Student and Alumni Accomplishments: Jordan Zimberoff (alumnus) was named Kane County High School Teacher of the Year Emily LaBarbera Twarog (alumnus) received a John T. Dunlop Outstanding Scholar Award Sophia Escobar (undergraduate) received…
~ ~ ~ ~ We have two awards for our top-performing undergraduates, vetted by the faculty and reviewed by their outstanding accomplishments, and, having seen this year’s class, there are a lot of…
Congratulations to the undergraduate winners of our 2020 McCloskey Awards for the best paper written in History 300. First prize goes to Cristian Rodriguez for his paper entitled “Nazi Propaganda, Women, and the…
Prof. Mark Liechty’s recent book Far Out: Countercultural Seekers and the Tourist Encounter in Nepal (University of Chicago Press) has received the Second Annual Edward Bruner Book Prize from the Anthropology of Tourism…
