Welcome! Building on more than a century of distinguished scholarship and teaching, our faculty and staff serve over 400 undergraduate majors along with many other students passionate about history. We are also home to a vibrant community of some 130 graduate students in both History and the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology.
Diversity in History
“We strongly believe that our intellectual endeavors are made more credible and rigorous when they include different peoples, places….” More here…
Career Options for History Majors
History 505, “History at Work,” showcases some of the many career options open to History majors in the private, public, and non-profit sectors. More here…
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology (HSMT) brings together pioneering faculty members in History and Medical History & Bioethics. More here…
Department News
Alumnus David Chang to Receive MLA Publication Award for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
Modern Language Association of America has announced that it would be awarding David A. Chang (Ph.D. 2002) with its third MLA Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages. David Chang is a …
Alumna Christine Lamberson Featured in AHA Magazine
Christine Lamberson (PhD, 2012) was featured in October’s issue of Perspectives on History, the news magazine of the American Historical Association for her work conducting oral history interviews with veterans in West Texas. She co-authored an …
“Trump’s Trade Czar, The Latest Architect of Imperial Disaster,” essay by Al McCoy
Al McCoy’s essay, “Trump’s Trade Czar, The Latest Architect of Imperial Disaster,” is featured on TomDispatch.com “As Washington’s leadership fades more quickly than anyone could have imagined and a new global order struggles to take …
Catherine Jackson awarded the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities First Book Award
Please join us in congratulating Professor Catherine Jackson, who has received a First Book Award from the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities! Professor Jackson’s book, titled Material World: Making Modern Chemistry, will explain the rise …
Ph.D. Candidate Piotr Puchalski Featured on Stanford University’s Hoover Institution Website
Piotr Puchalski is a Ph.D. candidate in modern European history at UW-Madison (advised by Kathryn Ciancia). His research was recently featured on the website of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, where he is currently a Silas …
Graduate Student Erin Faigin Has Book Review Published
Graduate student Erin Faigin recently had a book review published in Marginalia, a channel of the Los Angeles Review of Books. Faigin reviewed Shari Rabin’s book, Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America …
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