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In 1993-94 the Department of History celebrated its first 100 years. Although UIUC offered history courses shortly after its founding in 1867, the first full-time professor of history took up his position at the University in 1894 - at around the same time as the discipline became professionalized nationally.

Today there are over 50 faculty members researching and writing, teaching and advising undergraduate and graduate students on a range of historical topics markedly different from those that occupied the founding generation of historians at Illinois. The faculty at UIUC can be characterized both by cutting-edge scholarship in particular fields of specialization and a willingness to engage in debate of broad, comparative issues with the intellectual community of the department and the University.

These collections contain only those publications that can be made openly available under agreements with publishers. It does not represent the full range of publications - over 800 articles, books, book chapters, conference publications, and edited volumes - that the History faculty has produced. Please see individual faculty member pages for lists of their publications.

Collections in this community

• Antoinette Burton [6 items]

  Specializes in women, gender and empire in the context of modern Britain and colonial India.

• Caroline M. Hibbard [1 items]

  Specializes in Tudor-Stuart Britain; early modern Europe; and the Catholic Reformation

• Craig Koslofsky [2 items]

  Specializes in religion, culture, and daily life in late medieval and early modern Europe.

• Keith Hitchins [1 items]

  Specializes in Southeastern Europe; Rumania; Hungary; and Central Asia.

• Kenneth M. Cuno [2 items]

  Specializes in the social history of Egypt in the 18th-20th centuries.

• Orville Vernon Burton [3 items]

  Specializes in the American South, especially race relations, family, community, politics, religion, and the intersection of humanities and social sciences (especially humanities computing).

• Peter Fritzsche [3 items]

  Specializes in modern German and European history.

• Publications of the History Faculty [18 items]

  Publications of the faculty in the Department of History

• Rayvon Fouché [1 items]

  Specializes in the intersections and relationships between cultural representation, racial identification, and technological design.