Welcome to the Department of History at the University of Illinois
The mission of the Department of History at the University of Illinois is to train students in a critical understanding of the past and to cultivate an appreciation of the enduring power and relevance of that past in the present. We see ourselves as researchers and teachers; as scholars and public servants; as models of responsible interpretation and as producers of new knowledge. We pride ourselves on our tradition of academic excellence and on our reputation as a department where teaching is not only valued but viewed as a crucial part of the historian's craft.
Confident of our claim to be among the best public history departments in the nation, we are constantly seeking ways to sustain our mission in ways that are responsive to 21st century conditions but reflect our conviction that knowing the past helps to humanize us in the contemporary moment. We welcome your feedback -- please contact us if you have questions: history@illinois.edu
FALL 2010 GRADUATE APPLICATION AVAILABLE:
JULY 17, 2009
DEADLINE TO SUBMIT APPLICATION:
DECEMBER 15, 2009 11:59PM CENTRAL STANDARD TIME
History @ Illinois Newsletter Spring 2009 Edition
"Through the Lens of History" a documentary by Anne Shivers
Recent Faculty Publications
Winton Solberg, Professor Emeritus
Reforming Medical Education: The University Illinois College of Medicine, 1880-1920
(University of Illinois Press)
Article from Inside Illinois, Vol. 28, No. 19
Ron Toby
The Politics of 'Seclusion'
(Shogakukan)
Maria Todorova
Imagining the Balkans
(Oxford University Press)
Eugene Avrutin
Photographing the Jewish Nation:
Pictures from S. An-sky's Ethnographic Expeditions
(Brandeis University Press)
Leslie Reagan
Medicine's Moving Pictures: Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television
(University of Rochester Press)
Maria Todorova
Bones of Contention
(CEU PRESS)
Mark S. Micale
Hysterical Men: The Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness
(Harvard Press)
Article from LAS News Online
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi
Islam & Dissent in Postrevolutionary Iran
(I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited)
Lillian Hoddeson, Adrienne W. Kolb & Catherine Westfall
Fermilab: Physics, The Frontier & Megascience
(University of Chicago Press)
Tony Ballantyne & Antoinette Burton (Editors)
Moving Subjects: Gender, Mobility, and Intimacy in an Age of Global Empire
(University of Illinois Press)