Antoinette Burton

Antoinette M. Burton
Born1961 (age 62–63)
NationalityAmerican
Academic background
Alma materYale University
University of Chicago
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-disciplineBritish Empire
InstitutionsUniversity of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

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] On November 23, 2015, Burton was named Chair of the University of Illinois' search for a permanent Chancellor after the resignation of Phyllis Wise.[2]

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.[3]

She was named a 2018 Presidential Fellow for the University of Illinois system along with Wendy Lee, [4] and in 2019, she was named the Maybelle Leland Swanlund Endowed Chair at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.[5]

  1. ^ "Antoinette Burton faculty page". University of Illinois. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
  2. ^ "Illinois Massmail". illinois.edu. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
  3. ^ Heckel, Jodi. "Humanities research program elevated to institute status". Illinois News Bureau. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
  4. ^ "Antoinette Burton Selected as University of Illinois Presidential Fellow". American Historical Association. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  5. ^ "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.