Neal R. McCrillis, PhD
Associate Professor and Vice Provost for Global Engagement
History (modern Europe, Great Britain, Ireland)
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Neal R. McCrillis has devoted 30 years to leading international education efforts at a liberal arts college, a master’s comprehensive university and a Research I university. He has brought his leadership experiences to comprehensive internationalization at these diverse institutions.
In 2017 McCrillis joined the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) as its first Vice Provost for Global Engagement. He led the University’s 2017-2018 Task Force for Internationalization and chairs the University’s International Advisory Council established in 2018. McCrillis is dedicated to fulfilling UIC’s global engagement vision “to serve the citizens of Chicago and the world by being an international leader in research, scholarship, and innovation, and by creating a globally connected campus community which supports faculty, staff and students as they address the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century.”
McCrillis has held a number of professional leadership positions with NAFSA, the Association for International Education Administrators, the Association of Public Land Grant Universities, the Consortium for Belize Educational Cooperation (COBEC), the University System of Georgia’s System Council for International Education (2011-15).
Prior to joining UIC, McCrillis was the Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Eminent Scholar Chair of International Education and Executive Director of the Center for International Education at Columbus State University (CSU) in Columbus, Georgia. While at CSU McCrillis led their internationalization efforts, which were recognized by NAFSA with a Senator Paul Simon Award for Comprehensive Internationalization (2014).
McCrillis received his B.A. from Vanderbilt University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from UIC. He is a scholar of British and twentieth-century European history. McCrillis is the author of The British Conservative Party in the Age of Universal Suffrage (Ohio State University Press, 1998). He is currently under contract with Boydell and Brewer to produce a book tentatively entitled The Great War and the Anglo-American Encounter: British Views of Americans at the Start of the American Century that explores British responses to the Americans serving in Britain and France during World War I.