Welcome to the Department of History at UW-Madison
Our distinguished faculty and staff serve over 400 undergraduate majors and many other students passionate about history. We are also home to a vibrant community of some 160 graduate students.
Honoring Jan Vansina
The African Studies Program will hold a memorial lecture and symposium on September 21-22.
New Faculty
Please join us in welcoming U.S. historian Paige Glotzer and Ottoman/Middle East historian Daniel Stoltz! More here…
Majors In Action
Work one-on-one with distinguished historians! Get research funding! Publish and present your work! More here…
Department News
Pablo F. Gómez Wins the 2018 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize
Pablo F. Gómez’s The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic wins the 2018 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize Official Press Release Indianapolis, Indiana– University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Pablo F. Gómez’s The Experiential …
Article – “The politics of a natural laboratory: Claiming territory and governing life in the Galápagos Islands” by Elizabeth Hennessy
The Galápagos Islands are often called a natural laboratory of evolution. This metaphor provides a powerful way of understanding space that, through scientific research, conservation and tourism, has shaped the archipelago over the past century. …
Article – “History in an Age of Fake News” by Patrick Iber
We work and live in a time when historical knowledge has become intensely politicized. That knowledge is political is hardly new, but the rise of Donald Trump has heightened the polarization. His administration governs with …
Article – “White Supremacy Has Always Been Mainstream” by Stephen Kantrowitz
White supremacy is a language of unease. It does not describe racial domination so much as worry about it. White supremacy connotes many grim and terrifying things, including inequality, exclusion, injustice, and state and vigilante …
Graduate School Interview with Rivka Maizlish
Rivka Maizlish studies folk music, folklore, folk art, folk medicine – but she is not a folklorist. Maizlish is an intellectual historian, about to embark on a fellowship with the Smithsonian Institution to dive more …
Smithsonian Magazine highlights the efforts of George Mosse’s nephew, Roger Strauch, to track down the Mosse family artworks that had been seized by the Nazis.
In the final months of the 19th century, a German sculptor named Walter Schott began drawing up plans for a massive work he hoped would represent the pinnacle of his 15-year career. Cast in bronze, …
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First Annual Jan Vansina Lecture
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Department Newsletter
Chair’s Welcome, Twenty Years of ARCHIVE, Drunk History, Nature’s Metropolis Turns 25, Wisconsin 101 Progress Report, Faculty/Emeriti News, News Professorships, Graduate Student/Alumni Notes, Undergraduate/Graduate Awards and more!
Merle Curti Lecture Series
The annual Merle Curti Lectures commemorate our late colleague Merle Curti, a pioneer in the practice of American intellectual and cultural history, as well as a beloved member of our department for nearly half a century until his death in 1996.