Faculty and Staff
Robert McColley
Professor Emeritus of History
Professor McColley specializes in Early American history to 1830, high culture in the United States; and Illinois and the Middle West. His current research focuses on Mariana Van Rensselaer, critic, social worker, and historian; slavery and the Virginia upper class; and Federalists vs. Jeffersonians: political issues. Selected publications include Slavery and Jeffersonian Virginia (University of Illinois Press, second edition, 1973); "Classical Music in Chicago and the Founding of the Symphony, 1850-1905," Illinois Historical Journal, 78, 4 (W~mter 1985) 289-302; and John Randolph, a biography by Henry Adams, a new edition with primary documents and introduction by Robert McColley (M. E. Sharpe, 1996). He is currently Editor of the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. Professor McColley received his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley in 1960.