This year, the Department of History awarded over $35,000 to undergraduate students to fund student research projects, recognize superior writing achievements, and support outstanding History majors as they continue their studies. Awardees were recognized at a ceremony on Friday, May 12 in the Wisconsin Historical Society. Professor Marla Ramírez announced the awards, and Professor Brandon …
Professor Claire Taylor has been awarded an H. I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship. The Romnes Fellowship recognize faculty with exceptional research contributions within their first six years from promotion to a tenured position. The award is named in recognition of the late WARF trustees president H.I. Romnes. “My current main project is a feminist economic history …
With the end of the 2022-23 academic year, UW–Madison has recognized how a few notable graduates made their mark on campus – and beyond. Two History graduates have received recognition for their outstanding work from the University. Robert Hall received an Outstanding Undergraduate Returning Adult Student Award from UW–Madison. This weekend, Robert will graduate with …
Professor Ashley Brown was interviewed by Biographers International Organization about her recently published biography on Althea Gibson. This biography, titled Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson, is the most comprehensive biography of Althea Gibson, set against the major historical developments of the twentieth century. Based on previously unpublished archival sources, news media …
Professor Karl Shoemaker has been selected by the College of Letters & Science as the recipient of the Robert F. and Sylvia T. Wagner Distinguished Faculty Award. Professor Shoemaker has received this award in recognition of his scholarship on medieval history and for support of his current and planned research for the next 5 years. …
On Monday, May 1 students in History 680/690: Senior Thesis Colloquium presented on their original undergraduate research projects in an afternoon event at the Pyle Center. Presentations were divided into four panels: the State and the Environment, Inequality and Oppression in the United States, Trauma and Memory, and the Making of the Modern World. Professor …
Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States by Stephen Kantrowitz offers a concise and revealing history that reconsiders the Civil War era by centering one Native American tribe’s encounter with citizenship. In 1837, eleven years before Wisconsin’s admission as a state, representatives of the Ho-Chunk people yielded under immense …
History Newsletter 2022-23 (pdf) History Newsletter 2022-23: mobile-friendly version (pdf) In this issue: Chair’s Welcome Back to the Archives Professor Monica Kim Named MacArthur Fellow Department of history Undergraduate Graduation Address Faculty/Staff/Emeritus News And more… This issue and past copies of the newsletter can also be found of the History Newsletter page.
Professor Dana Landress has joined the Department of History as an Assistant Professor of Medical History and Bioethics. She is a historian of 19th and 20th century medicine and public health in the United States. Her research examines the relationship between nutritional disease, community health work, and the political economy of capitalism in the U.S. …
Jim Sweet ended his term as the 2022 President of the American Historical Association with a presidential address at the annual American Historical Association Conference. The address titled “Slave Trading as a Corporate Criminal Conspiracy, from the Calabar Massacre to BLM, 1767-2022” was published in the American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 1.