The premiere of Wisconsin 101’s new website comes with a huge sigh of relief. In a small way, creating a new website resembles building a new house. You begin with a few notions of what you would like your new “home” to look like, and you bring those half-formed aspirations to a designer, be it …
Professor Ashley Brown participated in an extensive interview about athlete Althea Gibson for Germany’s WDR TV Station (Westdeutscher Rundfunk). The subject of this interview, Althea Gibson, is also the subject of Ashley Brown’s book which is to be published in January 2023, Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson (Oxford University Press, 2023). …
Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Thongchai Winichakul whose recent book, Moments of Silence: the Unforgetting of the October 6, 1976, Massacre in Bangkok (U Hawaii Press, 2020) has won the EuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize from the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies. The EuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize is awarded to the best academic book on Southeast …
Congratulations to Professor Paige Glotzer, whose 2020 book How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960 (Columbia University Press) has received an honorable mention from the International Planning History Society for its First Book Prize. The First Book Prize is awarded to the most innovative book in planning history that …
Numerous Research Awards Granted to History Graduate Students Congratulations to History graduate students receiving various research awards! Isobel Ashby has received awards from the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium and American Association for the History of Medicine. Abby Corcoran has received an award from the American Antiquarian Society. Alex Scheepens has received an award from …
Congratulations to three History graduate students who are receiving Fulbright Fellowships! Chris Hulshof has received the Fulbright Dissertation Fellowship, and Carly Lucas and John Bassett have received Fulbright-Hayes Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowships, which provide opportunities to doctoral candidates to engage in full-time dissertation research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies.
Professor Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen has a new piece published with The Hedgehog Review titled, “Nietzsche’s Quarrel with History: Are there any lessons left for history to teach us?” The piece was published as part of their summer 2022 issue on the theme of “The Use and Abuse of History.” As a specialist in U.S. intellectual and cultural history, Ratner-Rosenhagen …
Congratulations to Foreign Language Area Studies Recipients The Department of History is excited to announce and celebrate the following graduate students receiving Foreign Language Area Studies fellowships: Patrick Eickman James Flynn Christopher Herde Carly Lucas FLAS fellowships are funded by the U.S. Department of Education and administered by the UW’s National Resource Centers to assist …
Congratulations to Graduate Research Travel Award Recipients The Department of History is pleased to announce the recipients of departmental graduate program research travel awards: Isobel Ashby Ayanna Drakos Ezra Gerard Ethell Gershengorin Chris Hulshof Shatrunjay Mall Lewis Patterson Alex Scheepens Aijie Shi Emily Tran Jorge Trinidad Espinoza Yacov Zohn
Congratulations to Graduate Writing Prize Recipients The Department of History is pleased to announce the recipients of departmental graduate program writing prizes for academic year 2021-2022! Zada Ballew has received the Kate Everest Levi Second-Year Paper Prize. The Kate Everest Levi Prize is given for outstanding second-year papers. Alex Scheepens has received the Paul J. …