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2018

L&S Newsletter Publishes Article on Professors Cindy I-Fen Cheng and Leonora Neville

Posted on January 3, 2019

Sift & Winnow, the online L&S newsletter, has an article on the “Lessons of History” that features our own Cindy I-Fen Cheng and Leonora Neville, along with Christy Clark-Pujara, who teaches in the Department of …

Posted in 2018, African History, All News, European History, Gender and Women’s History, History News, U.S./North American History

Commissioner Emeritus of Major League Baseball Bud Selig (B.A. 1956) Delivers Winter Commencement Speech

Posted on December 20, 2018

On Sunday, December 16th, the winter graduates of 2018 and 6,700 guests packed the seats of the Kohl Center and listened to Alan H, “Bud” Selig, Commissioner Emeritus of Major League Baseball and class of …

Posted in 2018, All News, Alumni, History News

Alumnus David Gilbert Nominated for Grammy Award

Posted on December 20, 2018

History alumnus David Gilbert (Ph.D. 2011) is up for a Grammy Award! He is nominated in the category of Best Album Notes for The Product of Our Souls: The Sound and Sway of James Reese …

Posted in 2018, All News, Alumni, History News, U.S./North American History

Publication from Goldberg Center Book Series Awarded Prize from the American Historical Association

Posted on December 18, 2018

The book, Understanding and Teaching American Slavery, published as part of The Harvey Goldberg Series for Understanding and Teaching History with University of Wisconsin Press has just received the James Harvey Robinson Prize from the …

Posted in 2018, All News, Harvey Goldberg Center, History News

Retiring Faculty Member, John Sharpless, Featured on Front Page of Wisconsin State Journal

Posted on December 17, 2018

After 43 years of teaching, Professor John Sharpless will be retiring at the end of this month. Professor Sharpless has taught American history and political history at UW-Madison since 1975. Some of his former students …

Posted in 2018, History News, U.S./North American History

UW Alumna Rachel Gross Wins Best Dissertation Prize

Posted on December 17, 2018

The Business History Conference has awarded the 2018 Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History to Dr. Rachel Gross (Ph.D. 2017) (https://rachel-gross.com/). Enterprise and Society published a summary of the project, “From …

Posted in 2018, All News, Awards, History News, U.S./North American History

Alumnus David Chang to Receive MLA Publication Award for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages

Posted on December 12, 2018

Modern Language Association of America has announced that it would be awarding David A. Chang (Ph.D. 2002) with its third MLA Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages. David Chang is a …

Posted in 2018, All News, Alumni, History News, U.S./North American History

Alumna Christine Lamberson Featured in AHA Magazine

Posted on December 10, 2018

Christine Lamberson (PhD, 2012) was featured in October’s issue of Perspectives on History, the news magazine of the American Historical Association for her work conducting oral history interviews with veterans in West Texas. She co-authored an …

Posted in 2018, All News, Alumni, History News

“Trump’s Trade Czar, The Latest Architect of Imperial Disaster,” essay by Al McCoy

Posted on December 6, 2018

Al McCoy’s essay, “Trump’s Trade Czar, The Latest Architect of Imperial Disaster,” is featured on TomDispatch.com “As Washington’s leadership fades more quickly than anyone could have imagined and a new global order struggles to take …

Posted in 2018, All News, History News, Southeast Asian History

Catherine Jackson awarded the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities First Book Award

Posted on December 5, 2018

Please join us in congratulating Professor Catherine Jackson, who has received a First Book Award from the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities! Professor Jackson’s book, titled Material World: Making Modern Chemistry, will explain the rise …

Posted in 2018, All News, Awards, History News, History of Science Medicine and Technology
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