Europe

Adam Hill

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Adam Hill Directory Thu, 09/18/2025 - 05:15

Area of Expertise

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 �山��, 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 �山�� 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.

Office Location

PAC 307

Research

Science and cultural heritage in imperial and international history; imperialism and decolonization; history of archaeology

Pub Affairs and Administration Admin

Phone Number

217-206-8640

Publications

"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.

achill3@uis.edu

Involvement

American Historical Association

History of Science Society

�山�� Council for the Social Studies

�山�� State Historical Society

North American Conference on British Studies

Lectures

"'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). �山�� Council for the Social Studies, Eastern �山�� 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.

Academic Adviser

Heather Bailey

Directory — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 14:58:52 +0000

Heather Bailey Directory Mon, 12/07/2020 - 08:58

Area of Expertise

Heather Bailey has a Ph.D. in modern European history from the University of Minnesota and has been teaching modern European and Russian History courses at UIS since 2002. Her research focuses on the intellectual, cultural, and diplomatic relations between France and Russia in the nineteenth century. She has published extensively on negative attitudes about Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church in western European discourses. Currently she is writing a book on Anton Berezowski's attempt to assassinate Emperor Alexander II in 1867, in the broader context of criminal justice systems, radicalism, and political terror in France and Russia. It will also explore French and Russian interpretations of the eventâ¿¿s significance both in the immediate aftermath and in the decades leading up to World War I.

Publications

Books:

The Public Image of Eastern Orthodoxy: France and Russia, 1848-1870 (Northern �山�� University Press, an imprint of Cornell UP, 2020).

Orthodoxy, Modernity, and Authenticity: The Reception of Ernest Renanâ¿¿s â¿¿Life of Jesusâ¿¿ in Russia (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008).

Articles:

â¿¿Eastern Orthodox Christianity,â¿¿ Handbook of Religious Culture in Nineteenth-Century Europe, eds. Anthony J. Steinhoff and Jeffrey T. Zalar, 15-34 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024).

â¿¿Anti-Russian-Orthodox Discourses in the Trial of Anton Berezowski,â¿¿Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies 6, no. 2 (2023): 159-80..

â¿¿â¿¿The churches that call themselves orthodoxâ¿¿: Nomenclature for Russian Orthodoxy in Nineteenth-Century France,â¿¿ Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies 2, no. 2 (2019): 149-77.

â¿¿Roman Catholic Polemicists, Russian Orthodox Publicists, and the Tsar-Pope Myth in France, 1842-1862,â¿¿ Canadian-American Slavic Studies 53 (2019): 263â¿¿285.

â¿¿A Russian Spectacle in Paris.â¿¿ St. Vladimirâ¿¿s Theological Quarterly 61, no. 2 (2017).

â¿¿Russian Interpretations of Ernest Renanâ¿¿s Life of Jesus.â¿¿ Thresholds into the Orthodox Commonwealth: Essays in Honor of Theofanis G. Stavrou, 147-55. Slavica Publishers, 2017.

Office Location

UHB 3061

History

Phone Number

217-206-7189

hbail2@uis.edu

Professor

Area of Specialization

Eastern Orthodoxy, Russian Orthodox Church, Modern European History, Franco-Russian Relations

Brandon Derman

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Brandon Derman Directory Mon, 12/07/2020 - 08:58

Area of Expertise

Government Legislation/Politics

Human Rights

Inequality

International Affairs/U.S. Foreign Policy

Brandon Barclay Derman is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, in the School of Integrated Science, Sustainability and Public Health, part of the College of Health, Science and Technology at the University of �山�� Springfield. Dr. Derman received his Ph.D. in Geography (with additional specialization in Sociolegal Studies) from the University of Washington. Professor Derman specializes in environmental politics, law, policy and justice, with an emphasis on climate change. His research interests include climate justice, energy transitions, political and policy-making alliances, and environmental alienation. Dr. Derman's 2020 book is Struggles for Climate Justice: Uneven Geographies and Politics of Connection (Palgrave Macmillan). His work has also appeared in the Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Political Geography, the South African Journal of Human Rights, the OÃ±ati Socio-Legal Series, Climate Policy, the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, and in edited volumes on climate justice and global health governance.

Office Location

PAC 323

School of Integrated Sciences, Sustainability, and Public Health

Phone Number

217-206-8581

Publications

Books

Derman, B. Climate Justice: Five Angles on the Crisis and the Movement. Palgrave Macmillan. (2024)

Derman, B. Struggles for Climate Justice: Uneven Geographies and the Politics of Connection. Palgrave Macmillan. (2020)

Journal Articles

Derman, B. â¿¿Polyvocal Articulations of Climate Justice and the Commonality of Loss.â¿¿ Political Geography 99 (2022): 102765

Derman, B. â¿¿Revisiting Limits to Legal Mobilization for Global Climate Justice: Power, Complexity, and the Legibility of Responsibility.â¿¿ OÃ±ati Socio-Legal Series 9, no. 3 (2019): 333-360.

Derman, B. â¿¿Climate Governance, Justice and Transnational Civil Society.â¿¿ Climate Policy 14, no. 1 (2014): 23-41.

Derman, B. â¿¿Contesting Climate Injustice During COP17.â¿¿ South African Journal on Human Rights 29, no. 1 (2013): 170-179.

Herbert, S., B. Derman, and T. Grobelski. â¿¿The Regulation of Environmental Space.â¿¿ Annual Review of Law and Social Science 9 (2013): 227-248.

Albrecht, J., B. Derman, and L. Ramasubramanian. â¿¿Geo-ontology Tools: The Missing Link.â¿¿ Transactions in GIS 12, no. 4 (2008): 409â¿¿424.

Camay, S., L. Ramasubramanian, B. Derman, E. Bohn, J. Albrecht, W. Milczarski, M. Boile, and S. Theofanis. â¿¿Ferry Parking and Landside Access Study: Implementing Public Outreach and Impact Assessment.â¿¿ Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2077, no. 1 (2008): 39â¿¿45.

Book Chapters and Sections

Derman, B. â¿¿Legal Geographies.â¿¿ In International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, edited by Audrey Kobayashi, Elsevier, 2019.

Derman, B. â¿¿â¿¿Climate Change is �山�� Usâ¿¿: Fence-line Communities, the NAACP, and the grounding of climate justice.â¿¿ In Routledge Handbook of Climate Justice, edited by Jafrey, T., Routledge, 2018.

Derman, B. â¿¿Participation of Corporations in International Organizations.â¿¿ In Researching Corporations and Global Health Governance: An Interdisciplinary Guide, edited by Lee, K. and B. Hawkins, Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.

Derman, B. â¿¿Contesting Climate Injustice during COP17.â¿¿ In Climate Talk: Rights, Poverty and Justice, edited by Dugard, J., A. St. Clair, and S. Gloppen, Johannesburg: Juta, 2013.

bderm2@uis.edu

Involvement

Environmental Justice Task Force, Springfield Faith Coalition for the Common Good

Teaching

ENS 332/IGS 331: Cultural Geography; ENS 419: Environmental Law; ENS 463: Our Changing Climate; ENS 476: Environmental Ethics; ENS 483: National Environmental Policy Act; ENS 552: Environmental Social Sciences and Humanities; ENS 581 Environmental Policy and Analysis; ENS 587: Natural Resources Policy and Administration; Urban GIS (University of Washington); Coastal GIS (University of Washington)

Associate Prof.

Area of Specialization

Environmental and natural resource politics and policy

Social movements

Political ecology

Law, rights, and the environment