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

Kristi Barnwell

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Kristi Barnwell Directory Mon, 12/07/2020 - 08:58

Area of Expertise

"The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academyâ¿¦Urging all of us to open our minds and hearts so that we can know beyond the boundaries of what is acceptable, so that we can think and rethink, so that we can create new visionsâ¿¦." --bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress

Dr. Kristi N. Barnwell received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas, Austin in History in 2011. She has published works on the creation of the United Arab Emirates, British imperialism and American-Jordanian relations.

Undergraduate courses taught:

HIS 161: Introduction to the Modern Middle East (Falls, on ground)
HIS/WGS 211: Women and Gender in the Middle East (Springs, on ground)
HIS 373: ECCE Reading Arab Pasts (online and on ground)
HIS 375: ECCE Conflict in the Middle East (online and on ground)
HIS 475: ECCE Imperialism and Nationalism (online and on ground)
HIS 470: Research in the Arab Gulf

Graduate seminars:

HIS 501: Graduate History Colloquium (Fall, on ground)
HIS 504: American Material Life (Spring 2024, on ground)
HIS 510s: Theories of British Imperialism (2011), Modern Middle East Culture and Society (2016), Race and Slavery in the Middle East (2021)

Awards:

Pearson Faculty Award for excellence in teaching (2022)
CLAS Award for excellence in teaching (2021)
CLAS Award for excellence in service (2017)

Publications (selected):

The Formation of the UAE: State Building and Arab Nationalism in the Middle East (forthcoming, Spring 2024) from I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury Academic
"Centering Students in Peer-led Discussion Boards," Issues in Middle East Studies, May 2022, pp. 23-24.
"Overthrowing the Shaykhs: The Trucial States at the Intersection of Anti-Imperialism, Arab Nationalism, and Politics," Arab Studies Journal (2016).
"'Caught Between His Friends and His Enemies': The Evolution of American-Jordanian Collaboration in the 1960s," Diplomacy & Statecraft (2011)

Office Location

UHB 3070

History

Phone Number

217-206-7420

Publications

Modern Middle East, United Arab Emirates, British Imperialism, US-Jordanian Relations

kbarn2@uis.edu

Involvement

UPI 4100/UIS United Faculty President and Grievance Officer

Campus Senator, CLASS Representative

Member, CLASS Curriculum Committee

Chair, University Requirements Committee

Faculty Advisor, Political Understanding and Activism Club

Teaching

Middle East History, History methods, Material Culture, Global Studies, Women and Gender Studies

Professor

Area of Specialization

Middle East politics, culture, and history