Unit: History

Black History Month speaker: Is Race Identity?, February 28

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Dr. Barbara Fields, professor of history at Columbia University in New York, will deliver the lecture “Is Race Identity?” at 6 p.m. Wednesday, February 28, 2024, in Prairie Room III, Bone Student Center, as part of events for Black History Month at Illinois State University.

Graduate students to represent CAS in 3M Thesis Competition

Normal Theatre, located in Uptown Normal, will again be hosting the Three Minute Thesis Competition.

Four graduate student researchers will represent the College of Arts and Sciences in the university-wide Three Minute Thesis competition on February 29 at 6 p.m. at the Normal Theater. This event is free and open to the public. Please come and support our students!

College announces new internal research grant program

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The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) is excited to announce a new internal research grant opportunity—the Dean’s Research Challenge Grant. Full-time CAS faculty from all college divisions, including Visiting Professors and non-tenure track faculty, are eligible to apply. The Principal Investigator’s (PI) primary appointment must be in a CAS unit. Interdisciplinary teams are encouraged, and teams can have non-CAS members.

Teaching at an academy in England

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Three students, Jayda Lochner, Lindsey Knapp, and Cole Merkin from the Illinois State University’s history-social sciences education program headed to Eastbourne, England, to experience teaching at an English school.

Ambassador Geeta Pasi to deliver lecture on November 13

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Ambassador Geeta Pasi (retired), Inaugural Donald F. McHenry Visiting Professor in Diplomacy and International Affairs, will deliver a lecture, “Representing America Abroad: Telling our story, advancing American interests, and serving Americans,” at 7 p.m. on Monday, November 13 in the Circus Room in the Bone Student Center. Her talk is free and open to the public.