Antoinette Burton

Antoinette M. Burton is an American historian, and Professor of History and Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.[1] Along with Catherine Hall, Mrinalini Sinha, and Tony Ballantyne her work has helped define the "new imperial history".[2] With Tony Ballantyne she has helped define a new approach to world history that focuses on colonialism, race and gender. On November 23, 2015, Burton was named Chair of the University of Illinois' search for a permanent Chancellor after the resignation of Phyllis Wise.[3]

Since 2015, Antoinette Burton has served as the Director of the Humanities Research Institute (formerly the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.[4] In this role she has spearheaded initiatives in humanities research, education and outreach, and social justice at UIUC within the state of Illinois, and throughout the Midwest region through programs such as Humanities Without Walls, the Odyssey Project, and the Education Justice Project.

She was named a 2018 Presidential Fellow for the University of Illinois system along with Wendy Lee, [5] and in 2019, she was named the Maybelle Leland Swanlund Endowed Chair at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.[6]

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References

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  3. "Illinois Massmail". illinois.edu. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
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  5. "Antoinette Burton Selected as University of Illinois Presidential Fellow". American Historical Association. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  6. "LAS faculty recognized as distinguished chairs: Antoinette Burton and Jeffrey Moore received two of U of I's highest honors". UIUC Dept of History. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  7. "Antoinette Burton". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
  8. Chamberlain, Craig (2010-04-15). "U. of I. historian Antoinette Burton wins Guggenheim Fellowship". University of Illinois News Bureau. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
  9. Heckel, Jodi (2014-12-09). "Five Illinois scholars awarded NEH Fellowships". University of Illinois News Bureau. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
  10. "Fellowships 2014". National Endowment for the Humanities. Archived from the original on 2017-12-11.
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