Faculty

The Department of History matches a rigorous course of study with excellent teaching, the vast majority of which is conducted by tenure-line faculty. We are proud that our faculty includes twenty-three winners of the Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Meet our faculty most recently honored for their outstanding teaching and research here! 

The Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced this week their appointment of the 101st class of Guggenheim Fellows, including 223 distinguished individuals working across 55 disciplines. Chosen through a rigorous application and peer review process from a pool of nearly 5,000 applicants, the Class of 2026 Guggenheim Fellows was tapped based on both prior career achievement and exceptional promise. As established in 1925 by founder Senator Simon Guggenheim, each Fellow receives a monetary stipend to pursue independent work at the highest level under “the freest possible conditions."

Faith Hillis is among the recipients of the prestigious award. Her project, "Forging The Protocols: How Swindlers, Opportunists, and a Host of Historical Accidents Created the Most Notorious Conspiracy of All Time," is forthcoming with Yale University Press and is a "biography" of the notorious antisemitic forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.