Lt. Col. John Hall, Ph.D. If that combination of titles surprises you, it shouldn’t — not the way Hall, a UW–Madison professor of military history, sees it. As a cadet at West Point, he preferred courses like advanced hand-to-hand combat to the liberal arts classes he felt were being imposed on him. Now, he realizes …
Daniel Ussishkin Assistant Professor of History University of Wisconsin – Madison Thursday, March 12, 2015 4:00 PM University Club Room 212 A Burdick-Vary Lecture. Co-sponsored by the George L. Mosse Program in History and the Alice D. Mortenson / Petrovich Chair in Russian History
Harry Handler University of Wisconsin–Madison, History and Political Science, 1979 Finance Executive, 67th Floor, 2 World Trade Center Thursday, March 12, 2015 4:00 PM Wisconsin Historical Society Auditorium, First Floor – 816 State St. Harry will tell us how his eyewitness experience coincides and is at odds with popular memory of that event. Presented by: …
“The ‘Jewish’ Michelangelo: German Jews, the Renaissance, and the Dream of Italy” Asher Biemann Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Center for German Studies, University of Virginia Monday, March 9, 2015 4:00 – 5:30 Union South (1308 W. Dayton Street) Why did Michelangelo matter to Jewish writers? What explains the cultural affinity of …
Simon Balto PhD Candidate UW–Madison Thursday, Mar. 5, 2015 7:00 – 8:00 pm Elvehjem L140 Simon Balto is currently completing a Ph.D. in History at UW–Madison, after which he will join the faculty at Ball State University as an Assistant Professor of History. His research explores dynamics of policing and race in America prior to …
MADISON – Camille Guérin-Gonzales died on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015, at Agrace HospiceCare in Madison, after 14 months of living exuberantly, purposefully, and consciously with a cancer diagnosis that she never let define her. She was born on July 20, 1945, in Las Vegas, N.M., the first child of Estella María Gonzales and Benedict Frederick …
January 2015 The Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) has awarded Assistant Professor Pablo F. Gómez an Honorable Mention for the Vanderwood Prize for his 2013 Social History of Medicine article “The Circulation of Bodily Knowledge in the Seventeenth-century Black Spanish Caribbean.” The Vanderwood Prize is awarded annually for a distinguished article on any significant …
January 2015 We are sad to report the death of David C. Lindberg, Hilldale Professor Emeritus. Dave was an eminent scholar of medieval science, a former director of the Institute for Research in the Humanities, and a benefactor and formative figure in the life of the Department of the History of Science. He had been …