Biography
Prior to coming to the U of I, he was president of the seven-campus University of Connecticut. His administrative career also includes serving as the executive vice president, provost and F. Wendell Miller Professor of History at the University of Iowa. Before his move to Iowa in 2004, he held numerous positions at The Ohio State University, which he joined as a faculty member in 1986. In March 2012, Hogan announced that he will resign from the position of president of the University of Illinois effective July 1. At that time President-designate Robert Easter, long-time faculty member and former interim provost and interim chancellor of the Urbana-Champaign campus, will become the president of the University of Illinois. Hogan earned his B.A. degree at the University of Northern Iowa, where he majored in English with minors in history and classics. His graduate degrees, in history, were earned at The University of Iowa. A native Midwesterner, born and raised in Waterloo, Iowa, Hogan is a specialist in the history of American diplomacy. He is the author of nine books and numerous scholarly articles and essays. He has served on numerous editorial boards and was editor for 15 years of Diplomatic History, an international journal for specialists in diplomacy and foreign affairs. He is the former vice president and president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He has also served on and chaired the U.S. Department of State's Advisory Committee on Diplomatic Documentation and has worked as a consultant for several BBC documentaries and for the PBS special George C. Marshall and the American Century. Hogan received the Norman Graebner Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010 from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR). The award is made to distinguished scholar of diplomatic or international affairs who has demonstrated excellence in scholarship, teaching, and/or service to the profession during his career. He is married to Virginia Hogan. They have four adult children: Christopher, David, Joseph, and AnnElizabeth.
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Michael J. Hogan was named the 18th president of the University of Illinois in May 2010. He also serves as the Harry E. Preble Chair and professor in the Department of History in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences on the Urbana campus.