The Department of History is pleased to announce the recipients of departmental TA awards for academic year 2021-2022! Capstone Teaching Awards Lindsay Ehrisman Zhijun Ren Excellence in Teaching Awards Brigid Nannenhorn Meghan O’Donnell Early Excellence Teaching Awards Ludwig Decke Joseph Hanauer Francisco Hernández Moleres Brandon Nakashima Alex Paradowski Emma Wathen
The Department of History is excited to announce and celebrate the following PhD candidates who are receiving UW–Madison Department of History Dissertator Fellowships: James Barnes Josh Doyle-Raso Ayanna Drakos Erin Faigin Emily Hutcheson Michael Kaelin Samm Newton Thomas Rider Bree Romero Leslie Sabakinu Patrick Walsh
Congratulations to Dissertators Receiving External Fellowships The Department of History is excited to announce and celebrate the following History and History of Science, Medicine, and Technology dissertators who are receiving external fellowships: Patrick Walsh has received the American Philosophical Society John C. Slater Fellowship. Samm Newton has received the Knauss Fellowship from the National Oceanic …
On Saturday, May 14, 2022 the Department of History celebrated graduates who have received their PhDs in History with a hooding ceremony and reception at the Fluno Center. Among those recognized were graduates of the years 2020, 2021, and 2022. The graduating class of 2021-2022 included: Bailey K. Albrecht Leslie A. Bellais Philip Cerepak Robert …
Congratulations to Professor Monica Kim, who has been selected as a 2022 Summer Humanities Research Fellow with the Institute for Research in the Humanities at UW–Madison. Funded by the College of Letters & Science and the Office of Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education, the Summer Humanities Research Fellowship program supports tenured faculty at …
Tyler A. Lehrer (he/him), PhD Candidate in Southeast and South Asian History and current Fulbright U.S. Student Program research grantee in Sri Lanka, recently gave an invited lecture to students, staff members, and early-career instructors in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. Tyler’s lecture focused on the experiences, constraints, processes, …
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 the Lewis Mumford Prize from the Society for American City and Regional Planning History. The Lewis Mumford Prize is awarded for the best book on American city and regional planning …
We asked students in Professor Kathryn Ciancia’s Spring 2022 Senior Thesis Colloquium what advice they would give to a student just starting out in the process of researching and writing a senior thesis. See what they had to say in this video. Our senior thesis students also successfully presented on their research topics publicly on …
Congratulations to the Department of History’s Graduate Program Manager, Leslie Abadie, on receiving the 2022 L&S Graduate Student Academic Advising Excellence Award! Leslie was honored for the award at a ceremony on April 27th. According to the award announcement: “Leslie Abadie received glowing letters of praise from several colleagues who have served or are currently …
On Saturday, April 30th, 2022 Professor Emeritus William Cronon returned to the UW–Madison campus for a conference in celebration of his retirement. The one day conference titled “Common Places: Keywords for a More Than Human World” was organized by his former graduate students and featured presentations from over twenty scholars and writers. Professor Emeritus William Cronon held …