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Recent Awards
Professor Theodore Weeks Named Winner of SIUC's Scholar Excellence Award!
Dr. Ted Weeks, the department's expert on the history of East-Central Europe has received university-wide recognition as the outstanding 2012 scholar of the year. To read more about Dr. Weeks and his work as a scholar and a teacher, see his profile on our Faculty page and his books on our Recent Publications page.
Many More History Department Faculty and Students Receive Awards and Recognition
Events
History Department Invites Graduating Seniors to Reception
History graduates and their families are cordially invited by the History Department to an informal reception on Friday, May 11 at 3 pm in the passage next to the main History Office (Faner 3374). Please contact the Director of Undergraduate Studies, Professor Theodore Weeks (tadeusz@siu.edu), with any questions.
Department Hosts Southern Illinois Regional History Fair
The department sponsored the annual event in which middle and high school students demonstrate their knowledge of history on March 24. Watch here for the date of the 2013 fair in the SIUC Student Center.
Cairo Then and Now (a project of the History Department's Preservation Summer)
The History Graduate Student Association (HGSA)
American Historical Association
Professor Jonathan Wiesen's new book.
When the Nazis came to power in 1933, they promised to build a vibrant consumer society. But they faced a dilemma. They recognized that consolidating . . . read more
Professor Gray Whaley's new book.
Modern western Oregon was a crucial site of imperial competition in North America during the formative decades of the United States. In his book, Prof. Whaley . . . read more
Professor Joe Sramek's new book.
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