Assistant Professor of History Brandon Bloch has been selected as a recipient of the 2026 Distinguished Teaching Award, one of UW–Madison’s highest honors for excellence in instruction, recognizing faculty who have made a significant impact in the classroom and on student learning since 1953. Professor Bloch’s work in modern European history, with a focus on …
On October 29, 2025, Professor Emily Callaci‘s lecture “Wages for Housework: The History of a Movement” was filmed by University Place for PBS Wisconsin. In this lecture, Professor Callaci tells the story of a global network of feminists who came together in the 1970s to campaign for wages for housework. She draws on extensive archival …
SAVE THE DATE: April 14 – April 15, 2026 Day of the Badger is an annual campus-wide day of giving. For 1,848 minutes on April 14 – April 15, alumni, friends, faculty, and students come together to celebrate and support UW. How to Participate: Celebrate UW! Come together with other Badgers by wearing red …
Historian of Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, and Latin America, Professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo has appeared in a series of media appearances in February 2026. Recently, Professor Meléndez-Badillo collaborated with global superstar Bad Bunny in the creation of historical narratives that accompanied each song’s YouTube visualizer in DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS. He also wrote 40 historical and cultural short …
UW-Madison History Professor Pablo F. Gómez recently published a new book with University of Chicago Press. Bloody Numbers: The Early Atlantic Slave Trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality is a provocative account of the violent world of the sixteenth and early seventeenth-century South Atlantic slave-trading societies, where traders, officials, notaries, and ship captains began thinking …
UW-Madison History Professor Devin Kennedy recently published a new book, Coding Capitalism: Computers and the Remaking of the Postwar US Economy, with Columbia University Press. Long before Google, Amazon, or Microsoft, computer technology shaped how people worked, how markets operated, and how businesses became big. After World War II, military officials and their partners in …
UW-Madison Emeritus Professor Gregg Mitman received the award of Knight Commander, Humane Order of African Redemption, one of the highest honors conferred by the Republic of Liberia. The distinguished honor was given by the President of the Republic of Liberia in a ceremony on July 24, 2025, celebrating the country’s 178th Independence Day. The award …
UW-Madison History Professor Marcella Hayes’ forthcoming book, Black Self-Governance: The Making of Political Culture in Seventeenth-Century Lima, is already receiving praise. Black Self-Governance has won the 2025 Founder’s Prize for manuscripts in development from the Sixteenth Century Society. The book will be published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2026. Black people were the …
Launched in October, UW–Madison’s Puerto Rican Studies Hub is the first initiative of its kind in the Midwest and is already emerging as a dynamic center for scholarship, public engagement, and community connection. Supported by a $3 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Hub brings together historians, artists, students, and community members …
Louise Young, the Marilyn B. Young Professor of History at UW–Madison, has been honored with a 2025-26 WARF (Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation) Named Professorship, a prestigious award that recognizes faculty who have made major contributions to the advancement of knowledge through research, teaching, and service. Professor Young, a historian of modern Japan, has previously led …