The Department of History will mourn the loss of Turkish historian and Professor Emeritus Kemal Karpat. Professor Karpat passed away on February 20th, 2019, at the age of 96. Professor Karpat taught in our department for 36 years, from 1967 until his retirement in 2003. His research pioneered the study of late Ottoman history, and …
History alumnus John Rowe (B.S. 1967 and J.D. 1970) was featured last month in Sift & Winnow, the e-newsletter of the College of Letters & Science at UW–Madison. The article was titled “Knowledge is Power,” and traced Rowe’s success as a CEO in major companies such as Central Maine Power Company, New England Electric System, …
Norman K. Risjord, age 87, died on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. Norman was born in Manitowoc on Nov. 25, 1931, and grew up in Kansas City. He attended the College of William and Mary, 1949 to 1953, was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa society in his junior year, and was a three-year letterman on …
Professor Emeritus William J. Courtenay has published a new book on religious life at the medieval University of Paris. The book is titled Rituals for the Dead: Religion and Community in the Medieval University of Paris (University of Notre Dame Press, 2018). According to John Van Engen, Andrew V. Tackes Professor Emeritus of Medieval History …
Professor Patrick Iber had an op-ed published in the New York Times yesterday, on the subject of U.S.-Venezuelan relations. Professor Iber is a historian of 20th century Latin America and U.S. foreign relations at UW–Madison. For the full article, click here.
Two of our History majors, Piper Brown-Kingsley and Claire Hitter, have been George L. Mosse Program Undergraduate Interns for the past several months, working at Wisconsin Historical Society and listening to oral history interviews from Wisconsin’s Jewish Community. They’ve both released blog posts with interesting insights from their research and experience. Read more about their work. Piper …
Professor Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen has an article published today in the Washington Post, titled “The shutdown is Trump’s ultimate attack on American intellectual life.” Professor Ratner-Rosenhagen specializes in U.S. intellectual history at UW–Madison. For the full article, click the link here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/01/24/shutdown-is-trumps-ultimate-attack-intellectuals/?utm_term=.e854638953ef
The College of Letters and Science and the Wisconsin School of Business have approved a First Year Interest Group that Professor Paige Glotzer will lead, called Capitalism and America. The FIG is part of a UW–Madison National Endowment for the Humanities grant that recognizes how undergraduate business majors become better critical thinkers and more effective writers …
Pablo Gómez’s book The Experiential Caribbean ( University of North Carolina Press, 2017) was awarded the 2018 Honorable Mention of the Bolton-Johnson Prize for the best book in Latin American History by the Conference on Latin American History at the AHA meeting in Chicago this month. The book has also received the 2018 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize …
Senior History major Hilary Miller presented “When Terror Took Out the Count: Evaluating Israel’s Response to the Assassination of U.N. Mediator Folke Bernadotte” in the American Historical Association’s Undergraduate Research Lightning Round on Friday, January 4, 2019. The session was scheduled from 8:30 to 10:00 a.m. in the Buckingham Room at the Hilton Chicago on the …