Alumni News

Day of the Badger 2026

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,…

Day of the Badger 2025

April 8 – 9, 2025 DAY OF THE BADGER Day of the Badger is an annual campus-wide day of giving. For 1,848 minutes on April 8 – April 9, alumni, friends,…

John Suval (PhD 2018) Receives Book Award from the Southern Historical Association

Dangerous Ground: Squatters, Statesmen, and the Antebellum Rupture of American Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2022) by John Suval received the Southern Historical Association’s 2023 James A. Rawley Award for the best book…

NBA Star Devin Harris Returns to Graduate 20 Years Later

This Sunday, December 17 former professional basketball player Devin Harris will graduate with his bachelor’s degree in History from UW–Madison, nearly 20 years after leaving UW–Madison to play in the NBA. Before…

History Alumnus Nils Peterson Receives Prestigious Marshall Scholarship

Recent alumnus Nils Peterson has been awarded a 2024 Marshall Scholarship. This prestigious honor gives high-achieving young Americans the opportunity to study at the graduate level at any university in the United…

Alum Tamara Feinstein Publishes New Book

Alum Tamara Feinstein (Ph.D., 2013) recently published a new book titled, The Fate of Peruvian Democracy: Political Violence, Human Rights, and the Legal Left. Description: Tamara Feinstein investigates the bloody Shining Path…

Alumnus Thomas McStay Adams Publishes New Book

Alumnus Thomas McStay Adams (Ph.D. 1972) published his two-volume work Europe’s Welfare Traditions Since 1500: Reform Without End in February of this year. Description: Tracing the interwoven traditions of modern welfare states…