I am delighted to announce that Robert Johnston has been named a Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American Historians. These speakers are named by the OAH to give keynotes, public and private…
Every year the Department awards a handful of endowment-based fellowships to doctoral students. These so-called “small department awards” are not accompanied by tuition waivers. Most of them are designated for students who have…
Congratulations to Manamee Guha, who successfully defended her dissertation last week: Performing Britishness: British Elite Club Culture in Colonial Calcutta in the 19th Century. Bravo on all your hard work!!!!
Tim Soriano is the recipient of a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt, Germany, beginning April 2020. Tim will be working on revising his almost complete…
Professor Lauren Braun-Strumfels (Raritan Valley Community College) has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award for 2019-2020: A Research Lectureship in American Studies at the University of Roma Tre, in Rome, Italy. Her award…
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…