Category: 2010

Bud Selig endows history chair at UW-Madison

Congratulations to our recent PhD Recipients – 2009-2010

Asaka, Ikuko – Dissertation title: “Race Across Empire and Republic: Black Migration to Canada and Racial, National, and Gender Formations in Atlantic Context”; post-doc., Penn State. Advisor: Steve Kantrowitz Bradley, Francis R. – Dissertation title: “The Social Dynamics of Islamic Rivalism in Southeast Asia: The Rise of the Patani School, 1785-1909”; visiting asst. prof., Hamilton …

All History of Science Department Events for Spring 2010

January 22 (Friday) at Noon Friday Brown Bag Town Hall Meeting January 29 (Friday) at Noon Tom Broman, UW–Madison “Narratives of Modernity: History of Science in a Post-European World.” February 5 (Friday) at Noon Anna Zeide, Sarah Potratz, and Peter Susalla, UW–Madison “The MA Paper” February 12 (Friday) at Noon James Sweet, History Dept., UW–Madison …

Anne Enke awarded Feminist Scholars Fellowship

Judith Leavitt Wins Distinguished Teaching Award

April 2010 The Committee on Distinguished Teaching Awards has honored Professor Judith Leavitt for teaching excellence with a Chancellor’s Award. She will receive this award along with nine of her faculty colleagues at a ceremony on April 21 at 3:30 p.m. at the Pyle Center. Having taught at UW–Madison since 1975, Leavitt has developed numerous …

Michael B. Petrovich Lecture

“Stalin and His Team: A New Look at Stalinist High Politics” presented by Dr. Sheila Fitzpatrick Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor Department of History The University of Chicago Thursday, April 22, 2010 4:00 – 5:30 PM Curti Lounge (Rm 5233 Humanities Bldg.) Supported by the Alice D. Mortenson/Petrovich Chair in Russian History

Second Annual William Allen Brown Memorial Lecture

Islam in West Africa by Sean Hanretta Stanford University Tuesday, April 20, 2010 3:30 pm Fluno Center Auditorium, 601 University Ave. Madison

Harvey Goldberg Memorial Lecture

“Living the Revolution: Italian Immigrant Women’s Labor Radicalism and Transnational Feminism.” Jennifer Guglielmo Assistant Professor of History Smith College Monday, April 19, 2010 4:00 PM 126 Memorial Library Jennifer Guglielmo is Assistant Professor of History at Smith College and the author of the just-released Living the Revolution: Italian Women’s Resistance and Radicalism in New York …

UW History Graduate Students Win Prestigious Erskine A. Peters Dissertation Fellowship

UW History graduate students Brenna Greer and Holly Y. McGee have won the prestigious Erskine Peters Dissertation Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame. Brenna and Holly are the first UW students to receive the fellowship and collectively, they received two of the three awards! Congratulations! “The Erskine A. Peters Dissertation Year Fellowship at the …

Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship Program 2010-12

February 2010 The University of Wisconsin–Madison is pleased to announce a new postdoctoral fellowship program in the humanities and humanistic social sciences funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The application deadline in April 9, 2010. The theme for the 2010 applicants is World Citizenship, broadly conceived. We welcome projects on the cultural aesthetic, philosophical, …