December’s University of Wisconsin–Madison commencement speaker hopes to knock it out of the ballpark. He certainly knows his way around one. Allan “Bud” Selig, commissioner emeritus of Major League Baseball, will deliver the charge to graduates on Sunday, Dec. 16, at the Kohl Center. Selig is no stranger to campus. He earned a bachelor’s degree …
Why the Pittsburgh shooter raged about immigration before attacking a synagogue by Jaclyn Granick and Britt Tevis On Saturday, a shooter opened fire inside a synagogue in the heart of a heavily Jewish neighborhood in Pittsburgh. The attack occurred during Shabbat services and during a bris, a celebration of a newborn life. Immediately before the …
History graduate student Jennifer Gramer is a 2018-2019 Mellon Public Humanities Fellow at UW–Madison’s Center for the Humanities. The fellowships, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, are designed to give graduate students in the humanities professional experience outside of the academy. Jennifer has a nine-month residency with UW–Madison’s Chazen Museum of Art, which is …
Katherine Benton-Cohen received her PhD from our department in 2002, is Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University, and recently served as historical advisor to the documentary Bisbee ‘17, which will be playing at Madison Museum of Contemporary Art next Wednesday 10/24! A Q&A with Professor Benton-Cohen will follow. The documentary tells the story of …
Elizabeth Schmidt (Ph.D. 1987), has published a new book, Foreign Intervention in Africa after the Cold War: Sovereignty, Responsibility, and the War on Terror (Ohio University Press, 2018), which offers a new framework for thinking about foreign political and military intervention in Africa, its purposes, and its consequences. Although conflicts in contemporary Africa have emerged …
Fulbright-Hays DDRA Awards provide funds to doctoral students to conduct doctoral research outside the United States in foreign languages and area studies for up to 12 months. The awards are funded through the U.S. Department of Education’s International and Foreign Language Education office. “These are prestigious awards that speak volumes about the caliber of the …
In celebration of American Archives Month, UW–Madison History major Rena Yehuda Newman was featured on the UW Archives’ Instagram account this morning. They are the Archives’ inaugural Student Historian in Residence. Read more about Rena and their work for the Archives here. October has been celebrated as American Archives Month since 2006, an initiative of the …
For the sake of learning — and with occasional family healing — a UW history course is asking students to turn their parents into historical subjects. Professor Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s History 221 course, The History of Your Parents’ Generation (1970s–90s), tackles a tumultuous few decades through a generational lens, assigning students to interview their parents (“compelling …
In work for his 1979 book The Death Camp Treblinka, Alexander Donat began the process of locating survivors of the camp and recording their histories. In a telling testament to the lethality of this place, he could identify only sixty-eight survivors. Analysis of Donat’s early findings—emerging six years prior to the publication of any major …
With the support of an IRIS Incubator Grant and a Holtz Center Thematic Cluster Grant, Neil Kodesh (History), Tony Goldberg (Pathobiological Sciences), and Josh Garoon (Community and Environmental Sociology) initiated a collaborative research cluster from 2016-18 on Mapping Hot Spots: ‘One Health’ and the History of Infectious Disease Research in Africa.” The goal of the cluster is to develop …