The book, Understanding and Teaching American Slavery, published as part of The Harvey Goldberg Series for Understanding and Teaching History with University of Wisconsin Press has just received the James Harvey Robinson Prize from the …
Retiring Faculty Member, John Sharpless, Featured on Front Page of Wisconsin State Journal
After 43 years of teaching, Professor John Sharpless will be retiring at the end of this month. Professor Sharpless has taught American history and political history at UW-Madison since 1975. Some of his former students …
UW Alumna Rachel Gross Wins Best Dissertation Prize
The Business History Conference has awarded the 2018 Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History to Dr. Rachel Gross (Ph.D. 2017) (https://rachel-gross.com/). Enterprise and Society published a summary of the project, “From …
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 …
UW History Alum Jason Morgan (Ph.D. 2016) Translates English Edition of Hata Ikuhiko’s Book
UW History alum Jason Morgan (Ph.D. 2016) served as translator of an updated, English-language edition of Hata Ikuhiko’s 1999 book, Comfort Women and Sex in the Battle Zone (Hamilton Books, Rowman & Littlefield, 2018) – …