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 …
2018
Commissioner Emeritus of Major League Baseball Bud Selig (B.A. 1956) Delivers Winter Commencement Speech
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 …
Alumnus David Gilbert Nominated for Grammy Award
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 …
Publication from Goldberg Center Book Series Awarded Prize from the American Historical Association
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 …
Retiring Faculty Member, John Sharpless, Featured on Front Page of Wisconsin State Journal
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 …
UW Alumna Rachel Gross Wins Best Dissertation Prize
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 …
Alumnus David Chang to Receive MLA Publication Award for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
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 …
Alumna Christine Lamberson Featured in AHA Magazine
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 …
“Trump’s Trade Czar, The Latest Architect of Imperial Disaster,” essay by Al McCoy
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 …
Catherine Jackson awarded the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities First Book Award
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 …