Miriam L. Wallace is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Illinois-Springfield, and Professor of English. She is a graduate of Swarthmore College and holds her PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz in Literature.
Michael J. Murphy is Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies. He holds a BA in Art and Art History from the University of Iowa and an MA and PhD in Art History and Archaeology from Washington University in St. Louis. H has taught at UIS since fall 2009.
I am the Wepner Distinguished Professor of Lincoln Studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield. I am a Californian by birth, and a first-generation American, raised by parents who immigrated from England in the early 1960s. I received my B.A. in History from California State University, Hayward (now CSU East Bay) before journeying to the land of Lincoln, where I earned my M.A. and Ph.D. in American History from Northwestern University. I spent a year at Rhodes College in Memphis and seventeen years at Saint Xavier University in Chicago before coming to UIS in 2019.
Daniel Platt is a scholar of law, political economy, and political culture. Raised in the Chicago area, he earned his PhD in American Studies at Brown University in 2018 and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University at Buffalo School of Law before joining the faculty at UIS in 2020. His first book, The Price of Misfortune (2023), examined struggles over debtors' rights in the late nineteenth century. His current research deals with religion and the prison abolition movement in the late twentieth century.
Associate Professor of History
Chair, History Department
Ph.D. Public History and United States History
Loyola University Chicago
Email: dhunte2@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-7432
Office: UHB 3056
Teaching Concentration: Public History, Urban History, Twentieth Century United States History
CV upon request
