University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: 2011

Staley joins Isis as an Advisory Editor

January 2011 Professor Richard Staley has joined the Editorial Board of the journal Isis as an Advisory Editor for 2011-2013. Published on behalf of the History of Science Society by the University of Chicago Press, Isis is the official publication of the society. Well done Richard!

Jeff Jentzen on PBS/Frontline

January 2011 Jeffrey M. Jentzen (Ph.D. 2007) talks about his recently published dissertation (now book) concerning death investigation in America on the February 1, 2011, episode of PBS/Frontline titled “Post Mortem.”

Nyhart and Keller receive UW Graduate School Awards

January 2011 Two awards from the UW-Madison Graduate School have been given to History of Science department faculty members. Professor Lynn K. Nyhart has received a Kellett Mid-Career Award and Professor Richard C. Keller has been awarded a H. I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship. Both awards are intended to recognize and support tenured faculty and are …

Robinson makes PBS/American Experience Appearance

January 2011 Department alumnus Michael F. Robinson (Ph.D. 2002), assistant professor of history at the University of Hartford, will appear in the American Experience documentary “The Greely Expedition” to be broadcast on PBS January 31, 2011.

Selig Lecture Series with Adrian Burgos – January 27, 2011

“Pomp” and His Circumstances: How One Negro League Owner Changed the Face of Baseball and It’s Implications for Understanding the History of Sport and Society Adrian Burgos joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UICU) faculty in 2001 and is currently a professor of history in the Department of African American, Latin American and Caribbean …

Selig Lecture Series

“Pomp” and His circumstances: How One Negro League Owner Changed the Face of Baseball and Its Implications for Understanding the History of Sport and Society” a lecture by Professor Adrian Burgos Department of History, African American Studies, Latin American & Caribbean Studies and Latina/Latino Studies at University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign Thursday, January 27th 4:00 – 5:15 …

Alfred McCoy awarded George McT. Kahin Prize

At its annual meeting in Honolulu, the Association for Asian Studies awarded the George McT. Kahin Prize this year to Professor Alfred W. McCoy for his book “Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State” (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009). The George McT. Kahin Prize of the …

OAH statement defending William Cronon

Read full article at OAH’s website.

AHA Deplores Effort to Intimidate William Cronon

History students get published in Journal of Contemporary History

Congratulations to Jennifer Miller and Vanessa Walker (current graduate students) and Udi Greenberg and Adi Gordon (two recent Mosse graduate fellows) for publishing major articles, based on their dissertation research, in the current issue of the Journal of Contemporary History. http://jch.sagepub.com/content/current