Institute for the Humanities|Posted on May 11, 2019
SEARCH RE-OPENED: POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Humanities Institute for the Humanities University of Illinois at Chicago Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Humanities The Postdoctoral Research Associate will…
Frankee Lyons, a UIC doctoral candidate in history, will travel to Poland to continue historical research on Polish-Jewish life and migration in the 1950s. Based in Warsaw for nine months starting in September, she…
Luxembourg, Germany, and Poland are the destinations for a graduating senior, a doctoral candidate and a former graduate student from the University of Illinois at Chicago who have been offered prestigious Fulbright grants…
We want to share with you the good news that one of our graduate students, Ismael Biyashev, has been awarded the 2019-2020 Stephen F. Cohen–Robert C. Tucker Dissertation Research Fellowship (CTDRF). Ismael was…
Join our Brownbag this Wednesday, March 13, 2019, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. Our Northwestern colleague Daniel Immerwahr will be here to talk about his new book, How to Hide an Empire: A History of…
Professor Lynn Hudson is extensively quoted in a recent article in the New York Times. Hudson is interviewed in a profile of Mary Ellen Pleasant, who was entrepreneur, financier, real estate magnate and abolitionist.…
Professor Robert Johnston has been awarded the Roger D. Bridges Distinguished Service Award for Exemplary Service for the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. The SHGAPE Executive Committee unanimously…
Join us on Wednesday, January 23, 2019, 12 pm – 1 pm in UH 950 for our weekly BrownBag! We will discuss the new format of the exams, which goes into effect in March. In…
William Hoisington, Professor Emeritus in the Department of History has been awarded membership in the Ordre des Palmes académiques (Order of Academic Palms) at the rank of Chevalier, in recognition of his distinguished career as a…
Barbara Ransby, a University of Illinois at Chicago historian, writer, and activist, is the recipient of the American Studies Association’s 2018 Angela Y. Davis Prize for Public Scholarship, which recognizes scholars who have…