History

Greg Hall

Dr. Greg Hall, Professor and Graduate Director

WIU Summer Teaching Stipend Award Winner

Prof. Greg Hall is one of the Department's American historians.  His teaching focuses on Illinois, the environment, and the West. Dr. Hall offers courses on the American West [History 308], Illinois [History 420(G)], Global Environment [History 421G], and American Environment [History 316], in addition to graduate seminars [History 510 and 511] in U.S. history.

Dr. Hall's research interests involve labor, anarchism, and environmental history. He is the author of two books: Harvest Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World and Agricultural Laborers in the American West, 1905-1930 (Oregon State University Press, 2001) and Writing Labor’s Emancipation: The Anarchist Life and Times of Jay Fox (University of Washington, 2022). He also has published several essays on labor history in the West, anarchism, and on environmental history in Illinois. He has also presented scholarly papers at numerous conferences. Currently, he is researching the anarchism of Home Colony and the environmental history of coal mining in Illinois.

Dr. Hall has won several awards and fellowships, including the Claudius O. and Mary W. Johnson Fellowship and the Pettyjohn Research Fellowship. He has four times been selected by the WIU Foundation for a Faculty Summer Stipend and has also won a University Research Council Award.

Prof. Hall earned his Ph.D. at Washington State University in 1999 and taught in the History Department at Idaho State University for four years before joining the History faculty at Western Illinois University in 2003. He served as Graduate Director of History from 2010 to 2014.

Dr. Hall presenting on the National Park Service

Dr. Hall gives a presentation on the National Park Service