Antoinette M. Burton | |
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Born | 1961 (age 63–64) |
Nationality | American |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Yale University University of Chicago |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | British Empire |
Institutions | University 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]