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Appealing to our ‘better angels’ with the Braver Angels
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — I’m sitting in the well-appointed Illini Union Ballroom on a sunny, late-October afternoon. My current mood: anxious. Sure, our 20th-ranked Illinois football team is taking on No. 1 Oregon this weekend, but that’s not on my mind right now. (Turns out my pregame butterflies were well founded.) Pre-election jitters are foremost, with […]
New research creates better tool to assess personality traits of job seekers
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — New research co-written by two University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign experts who study personnel psychology points to a better way of helping researchers and employers identify the differences in how people respond to personality tests. The tool — a hybrid of two existing measurement models called the “Mixture Dominance-Unfolding Model,” or “MixDUM” — could help human resources […]
Professor, pioneer in Black studies, Black liberation movements donates papers to Archives
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The faculty and personal papers of Gerald McWorter, a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor emeritus of African American studies and of information sciences, show the arc of a freedom narrative, from his ancestors’ founding of New Philadelphia, Illinois — the first U.S. town to be incorporated by a Black man — to […]
New book reveals Electoral College strategies in modern political era
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new book co-written by a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign political scientist explores the road to the White House through three distinct eras of presidential campaigning.
New book highlights accomplishments of influential Black leader in post-Civil War Illinois
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new book by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign emeritus professor of religion Wayne Pitard talks about the accomplishments of influential leader John J. Bird, the first Black trustee for the U. of I.
History professor examines Nelson Rockefeller’s career as a lens for Republican Party’s rightward shift
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Politician and businessman Nelson Rockefeller was seen as a moderate or liberal Republican even as he embraced conservative policies as the Republican Party shifted to the right in the 1960s and ‘70s. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign history professor Marsha Barrett uses the political career of Rockefeller — the four-time New York governor […]
Illinois historian’s book provides introduction to gender history
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Gender history is hiding in plain sight, at work in all aspects of our society, said University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign history professor Antoinette Burton. “For many decades, histories were written without attention to women or gender or sexuality. Everything that mattered happened in congress or on the battlefield,” Burton said. “Gender makes […]
How have U.S. border policies affected attitudes toward migrants and violence against them?
On Aug. 3, 2019, a shooter killed 23 people and injured two dozen more in an El Paso, Texas, Walmart. The gunman, who posted an anti-immigration manifesto online before the shooting, targeted Latinos. He was convicted of federal hate crimes. Gilberto Rosas, who grew up in El Paso, is the department chair and a professor […]
Humanities students build bridges to strong communities
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign doctoral student Dale Mize is using storytelling to help raise awareness about food sourcing through summer research interviews on three area farms that use sustainable practices and regenerative land use systems. He is one of five students participating in the 2024 Humanities Without Walls Summer Bridge experience through the U. of. […]
Illinois scholar’s book examines how popular music connects to the past
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Popular music is associated with youth, newness and originality. Yet such music has a deep relationship with the past through sampling, covers and commemorative reissues of decades-old recordings, tours by artists from the 1960s and ‘70s, and performances by tribute bands. In his new book, “Same Old Song: The Enduring Past in […]
Illinois poet’s new book of poetry reflects on marriage, its constraints and its hopefulness
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Corey Van Landingham’s new book of poems, “Reader, I,” looks at marriage, the tension between being an individual and part of a couple, and how to operate within the constraints of marriage for the better. Van Landingham is an English professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and “Reader, I” is her […]
Book details how federal government used bribery to end relationships with Native American tribes
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Federal policy toward Native American tribal nations in the first half of the 20th century sought to end the government’s legal and political relationship with tribes. A new book by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign history professor David Beck looks at one aspect of termination policy — bribery. “Bribed With Our Own Money: […]