Newly-minted alumnus Sebastian van Bastelaer (B.A. 2019), recently had part of his senior thesis published as an article in the Journal of the American Revolution! Sebastian graduated from our program this spring with honors in the major. His thesis, titled “Paroisses Indociles” (Unruly Parishes): A Reconsideration of Habitant Loyalties and the Historiography of the American …
ARCHIVE, the University of Wisconsin Undergraduate Journal of History, has recently published their 22nd volume! Editor-in-Chief John Douglas, along with editors Samuel Bertsch, Isabelle Cook, Jack Kelly, Grant Haxton, Hillary Miller, Marissa Miller, Jake Price, and Owen Tortora, worked hard this past year to produce a volume that encompasses writing from students at UW, to …
Alumna Brenna Wynn Greer (PhD, 2011) has recently published her first book, Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined African American Citizenship (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), which explores how black entrepreneurs produced magazines, photographs, and advertising that forged a close association between blackness and Americanness. Greer is the Knafel Assistant Professor of Social Sciences and …
History graduate students Galen Poor and Joshua Tan interviewed Joseph Ho for the TransAsia and the World podcast about his intersecting interests in the modern history of Christianity in China and the history of photography. Learn about cultural encounters between Americans and China in the early twentieth century, the unique position of American missionaries in …
Professor Giuliana Chamedes‘ first book has just been released! A Twentieth-Century Crusade: The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Christian Europe (Harvard University Press, 2019), is the “first comprehensive history of the Vatican’s agenda to defeat the forces of secular liberalism and communism through international law, cultural diplomacy, and a marriage of convenience with authoritarian and right-wing rulers.” Professor …
Alumna Angela Ellis (Ph.D. 2010), has received the 2019 President’s Excellence Award for teaching from the University of Albany! Award winners were recognized at a ceremony on May 2nd. Ellis is Lecturer in History at the University of Albany. During her time at UW–Madison, Ellis was advised by Professor Johann Sommerville.
Since graduating last winter (December 2018), newly minted Ph.D. recipient Dr. Megan Stanton has received the Mormon History Association’s Best Dissertation Award for “All in the Family: Ecclesiastical Authority and Family Theology in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.” Stanton received the award at the MHA’s 54th annual conference last week in Salt …
Be on the lookout for good reading material to come later this year! Alumnus Jacob Blanc (Ph.D. 2017), will have his first authored book published in December of 2019. The title is Before the Flood: The Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil (Duke University Press), and it focuses on the protest movements of rural …
This week, the world remembers the 75th anniversary of the Normandy Landings. In an effort to commemorate this moment, alumnus and Board of Visitors Emeritus Jeffrey A. Engel (M.A. 1996, Ph.D. 2001) has written an opinion piece for the Washington Post. The article is titled “Lest we forget: The lesson of D-Day for Americans today,” and …
Graduate student Simon Fisher is featured in the Spring 2019 edition of the Journal of African American History! Fisher’s article, “Challenging Dissemblance in Pauli Murray Historiography, Sketching a History of the Trans New Negro,” was part of a special JAAH issue on “LGBT Themes in African American History.” Fisher is working on a dissertation currently …