Antoinette Burton

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

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.

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