Adam C. Hill joined the College of Public Affairs and Education in September 2025 as an academic advisor. He previously held faculty positions at Greenville University in Illinois, Sterling College in Kansas, and Concordia College in New York, including six years as a department chair in the social sciences and humanities. He also has experience teaching at the secondary level. A Springfield native, Adam holds a BA in History from the University of Missouri--St. Louis, an MA in History from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, and a PhD in modern European history from the University of Connecticut. Before committing to a career in education, he worked for six years as a movie theater manager.
Science and cultural heritage in imperial and international history; imperialism and decolonization; history of archaeology
"Tutankhamun's Treasures: From Egypt to London and Beyond." Broadsides. North American Conference on British Studies, July 12, 2024.
"`The Battle for Abu Simbel¿: Archaeology and Postcolonial Diplomacy in the UNESCO Campaign for Nubia." Journal of Contemporary History 56 (July 2021): 502 - 521.
"Kwame Nkrumah." In Mark Doyle, ed., The British Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2018.
"Lutheran Schools in Saint Louis, 1917 - 1929." Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly 78 (Summer 2005): 117 - 124.
American Historical Association
History of Science Society
Illinois Council for the Social Studies
Illinois State Historical Society
North American Conference on British Studies
"'The Difference between Old Papyri and Tobacco': Science and Smuggling in Interwar Egypt." History of Science Society, New Orleans, La., November 2025.
"Designing Effective University Curriculum for Social Studies Education Majors." Co-presenter with Dr. Kollin Fields (Greenville University). Illinois Council for the Social Studies, Eastern Illinois University, April 2025.
"'The Exhibition of the Seventies': Tutankhamun and Postcolonial Diplomacy at the British Museum." North American Conference on British Studies, Baltimore, Md., November 2023.
"Building 'Intellectual Bases': British Egyptology, Imperial Politics, and the Second World War." Symposium on "'Pyramids and Progress': Perspectives on the Entanglement of Imperialisms and Early Egyptology (1800 - 1950)," Leuven and Brussels, Belgium, November 2021.
"'Deep Diplomacy': British Archaeology and Cultural Relations with Egypt, 1922 - 1945." Workshop on "New Approaches to the History of Soft Power in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, December 2020.
"'The Battle for Abu Simbel': Archaeology and Postcolonial Diplomacy in the UNESCO Campaign for Nubia." Workshop on "Governing Environmental Change: Science Diplomacy and the Global Politics of Knowledge since the 19th Century," Berlin, November 2018.