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Society appoints new Journal editor ISHS president John Weck has appointed Dr. Eileen McMahon, Assistant Professor of History at Lewis University in Romeoville, as the new editor of The Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, effective January 1, 2008. Dr. McMahon received a unanimous recommendation from the Select Search Committee, charged with finding a new editor after Dr. Kay J. Carr, the Journal’s current editor at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, announced she would step down at the end of the year. Dr. Carr has served as Journal editor since Fall 2002, and resigned to take on additional teaching and administrative duties at SIU-C. “Eileen is well qualified based on her experience as an editor of a scholarly journal, her own academic work on Illinois topics, and her teaching a course in Illinois history,” said Dr. David Scott, chairman of the Editor Search Committee and of the Society’s Publications Committee. He went on to say that the new editor will continue the capable work of Kay Carr, producing issues of the Journal that meet the Society’s principle of diversity, that is, be representative of the “variety of Illinois groups, communities, regions, organization, eras, leaders, and events.” Professor McMahon is the author of “What Parish Are You From? The Chicago Irish Parish Community and Race Relations, 1916-1970; A History of the St. Croix Valley, coauthored with Ted Karamanski, forthcoming from University of Wisconsin Press; as well as other articles including, “The Irish In Illinois,” in The Encyclopedia of the Irish in America, edited by Michael Glazer. Dr. McMahon has also served as editor of Mid-America: A Historical Journal for four years. She teaches the History of Illinois; Immigration, Ethnicity, and Race; American Women’s History, Sports in America; Native American History, and Public History. Dr. McMahon also is the history department’s Student Internship Director overseeing students’ work at such places as Cantigny First Division Museum, the Joliet History Museum, and the Illinois & Michigan Canal Archives at Lewis University. She has also been a Boy Scouts of America leader for eight years bringing scouts to various historical sites in the state. |
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