Heather Bailey 
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D. Modern European History, University of Minnesota (2001)
Teaching Concentration: 19th-century Russian intellectual and cultural history
Email: bailey.heather@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-7189
Office: UHB 3061
Research Interests: cultural ties between Imperial Russia and the West, relations between the Orthodox Church and society in late-imperial Russia
Before coming to UIS, Dr. Heather Bailey taught as a Visiting Professor at Gustavus Adolphus College.
Terry Bodenhorn 
Assistant Professor of History; Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Ph.D. Modern Chinese History, University of Michigan (1997)
Teaching Concentration: Chinese and Japanese History
Email: tbode1@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-7246
Office: LRH 101/UHB 3059
Research Interests: water pollution and public health in the Taipei Basin in northern Taiwan
Before coming to UIS, Dr. Terry Bodenhorn taught as an Assistant Professor of History and East Asian Studies at the University of Findlay. In the spring of 2000, he served as an invited visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese History at the University of Michigan.
David Bertaina
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D. Semitic Languages and Literatures,
Catholic University of America (2007)
Email: dbert3@uis.edu
Phone:(217) 206-6779
Office: UHB 3056
Teaching Concentration: The History and literature of the medieval Middle East, with an emphasis on Christian-Muslim dialogues.
Dr. Bertaina joins UIS as the department's first specialist in comparative religion and previously taught courses on Islam at California State University, Chico. Bertaina's areas of research and expertise include the history and literature of the medieval Middle East, with an emphasis on Christian-Muslim dialogs. He has made a number of presentations on Christianity, Islam, and comparative religion for academic conferences, universities, and private organizations.
Cecilia Stiles Cornell 
Associate Professor of History; Director, Whitney M. Young Graduate Fellowship Program
Ph.D. History, Vanderbilt University
Teaching Concentration: 20th-century U.S. history, U.S. foreign relations, and policy history
Email: cornell.cecilia@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-7430
Office: UHB 3055
Research Interests: the early years of the Cold War and the transition on the home front from World War II to the postwar era
Dr. Cecilia Stiles Cornell currently serves as the faculty advisor for the History Club at UIS.
Erik Eliav Freas 
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D. Modern Middle Eastern History, University of St. Andrews
Teaching Concentration: Modern European history, early modern European history, intro to the Middle East
Email: efrea2@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-8243
Office: UHB 3056
Research Interests: Muslim-Christian relations in Palestine during the British Mandate period, the economic cooperation between Isrealis and Palestinians under the (then) “new autonomy”
Dr. Erik Eliav Freas is the author of “Ottoman reform and its impact on ‘Islamic’ identity among the Arab peasantry in Palestine”, “Muslim Women in the Missionary World”, and “An Investigation of Possible Modes of Economic Cooperation between Isrealis and Palestinians under the New Automony”.
Deborah Kuhn McGregor 
Associate Professor, History, Women's Studies, and African-American Studies
Ph.D. History, Binghamton University
Teaching Concentration: United States history—especially 19th-century history—but also United States women's history, history of the family, history of childhood, oral history
Email: mcgregor.deborah@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-7439
Office: UHB 3063
Research Interests: women, health and healing; the history of medicine; and the history of childbirth
Dr. McGregor has written on the history of gynecology and obstetrics, and is the author of the book From Midwives to Medicine. She enjoys working with students on a one-on-one basis and in the classroom. She has taught at UIS since 1986.
Robert K. McGregor 
Professor of History
Ph.D. American History (Environmental Issues) (1984)
Teaching Concentration: Early American History, Environmental History, and History of England
Email: mcgregor.robert@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-7442
Office: UHB 3053
Research Interests: Henry David Thoreau, English history, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Lord Peter Wimsey
Dr. Robert McGregor is the author of several books including: A Wider View of the Universe: Henry Thoreau's Study of Nature and Conundrums for the Long Week-End: England, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Lord Peter Wimsey. He has served in the History Department since 1986.
Cindy Nimchuk 
Adjunct Instructor, History
Ph.D. Ancient Studies (Akkadian Language and Literature), University of Toronto
Teaching Concentration:
Email: cnimc2@uis.edu
Research Interests: Ancient civilizations and cultures, especially in the Middle and Near East; Latin, classical history, and archaeology; classical studies
Before coming to UIS, Dr. Cindy Nimchuk was at Stanford University as a teaching fellow in humanities focusing on ancient empires, and a co-instructor in the Special Languages Program focusing on Old Persian language and history. Her language facilities include Akkadian, Greek, Latin, Old Persian, and Aramaic. She has also worked as site supervisor at an archaeological excavation in Turkey.
Phillip Shaw Paludan 
Professor of History and Lincoln Studies
Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair of Lincoln Studies
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Teaching Concentration: Constitutional, social, intellectual, and political history of the U.S. in the nineteenth century
Research Interests: Constitutional, social, intellectual, and political history of the U.S. in the nineteenth century
Before coming to UIS, Dr. Phillip Shaw Paludan has taught at the University of Kansas, Rutgers University, and University College, Dublin. An award-winning teacher, he has also received several fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for Humanities, The American Council of Learned Societies, and Harvard Law School. He is the winner of the Barondess Lincoln Award and the Lincoln Prize. The four books he has published reflect his interests in constitutional, social, intellectual, and political history of the U.S. in the nineteenth century. Dr. Paludan's passing is a huge loss to the Department and to the University. He will be greatly missed.
Peter Shapinsky 
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D. History, University of Michigan (2005)
Email: pshap2@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-6595
Office: UHB 3064
Research Interests: Global systems of exchange and interaction; maritime exchange in premodern East Asia; social history of Japan and East Asia, especially the premodern period; social history of pirates and outlawry in East Asian and comparative contexts; gender history in Japan and East Asia; cartography and conceptualizations of space.
Teaching interests: Premodern and Modern East Asia (China, Japan, Korea), Premodern Japan, From Vikings to Hackers: A Pirate’s World History, Gender in Chinese and Japanese history, Samurai in history and romance, historiography.
Recent Publications:
"Polyvocal Portolans: Nautical Charts and Hybrid Maritime Cultures in Early Modern East Asia,"Early Modern Japan, XIV (2006), 4-26.
"With the Sea as their Domain: Pirates and Maritime Lordship in Medieval Japan," in Seascapes, Littoral Cultures and Trans-Oceanic Exchanges ed., Jerry Bentley, Kären Wigen, and Renate Bridenthal (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007), 221-238.
William H. Siles 
Associate Professor of American History; History Department Chair
Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Teaching Concentration: Public history; American Westward Expansion; and American Religious, Urban, and Agricultural History
Email: siles.william@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-7432
Office: UHB 3057
Research Interests: American frontier settlement and community development; 19th-century American material life
Cullom Davis
Emeritus Professor of History
Phone: (217) 206-7437
Office: CBM 47
Durward Long
President Emeritus, SSU/Regency Professor Emeritus, Economic History, African-American History
Phone: (217) 206-7434
Office: CBM 51
Larry Shiner 
Emeritus Professor
Ph.D. Phenomenology and Existential Philosoph, Université de Strasbourg
Teaching Concentration: Modern European History, Art History, the Enlightenment, Greek Philosophy, Cultural History
Email: lshin1@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-7194
Office: TBA
Research Interests: Philosophy of art, philosophy of history, later French philosophy (especially the work of Paul Ricoeur and Michel Foucault), philosophy of religion,
Dr. Shiner has taught at UIS since 1971. He has published a number of articles, including "Primitive Fakes, Tourist Art, and the Ideology of Authenticity" (Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 52, 1994). He has published two books in philosophy, one related to the philosophy of history (The Secret Mirror: Literary Form and History in Tocqueville's "Recollections" Cornell University Press, 1988) and one related to the philosophy of art (The Invention of Art: A Cultural History, University of Chicago Press, 2001).
