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 to power of synthetic organic chemistry in nineteenth century Germany. In her own words, “It’s a story of personal ambition …
Piotr Puchalski is a Ph.D. candidate in modern European history at UW–Madison (advised by Kathryn Ciancia). His research was recently featured on the website of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, where he is currently a Silas Palmer Fellow, conducting his dissertation research on the interwar Polish state’s engagement in colonial ideas and actions. The Hoover Institution, …
Graduate student Erin Faigin recently had a book review published in Marginalia, a channel of the Los Angeles Review of Books. Faigin reviewed Shari Rabin’s book, Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America (NYU Press, 2017). Faigin is a Peter and Julie Weil Distinguished Graduate Fellow in the Department of History at UW–Madison, …
UW History alum Jason Morgan (Ph.D. 2016) served as translator of an updated, English-language edition of Hata Ikuhiko’s 1999 book, Comfort Women and Sex in the Battle Zone (Hamilton Books, Rowman & Littlefield, 2018) – in the publisher’s words, “an exhaustive examination of the controversial issue of comfort women” in World War II. The meaning …
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Paige Glotzer, who was just awarded the UW–Madison Center for the Humanities First Book Award! This award means that she will have the opportunity to workshop her manuscript this spring with a group of selected reviewers. Her first book is titled, Building Suburban Power: The Business of Exclusionary Housing Markets, 1890-1960, …
Professor Nan Enstad is the guest on an episode of the biweekly podcast “Edge Effects,” produced by graduate students in the Nelson Institute’s Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE) who edit the digital magazine of the same name. She joins environmental historian Drew Swanson (of Wright State University) to discuss her new book, Cigarettes, …
“The Last Word” By Alfred W. McCoy ’68 One glorious afternoon in fall 1965 — the start of my sophomore year — I arrived at Baker Field to find crew practice canceled. Instead of returning home I took a single shell from the boathouse and, for the first and only time, rowed through the Spuyten …
Professor Daniel Stolz’s book, The Lighthouse and the Observatory: Islam, Science, and Empire in Late Ottoman Egypt (Cambridge, 2018), was featured in a book forum on The Immanent Frame, an interdisciplinary web journal on religion, secularism, and the public sphere, published by the Social Science Research Council. The forum, entitled Science and the Soul: New …
December’s University of Wisconsin–Madison commencement speaker hopes to knock it out of the ballpark. He certainly knows his way around one. Allan “Bud” Selig, commissioner emeritus of Major League Baseball, will deliver the charge to graduates on Sunday, Dec. 16, at the Kohl Center. Selig is no stranger to campus. He earned a bachelor’s degree …
Why the Pittsburgh shooter raged about immigration before attacking a synagogue by Jaclyn Granick and Britt Tevis On Saturday, a shooter opened fire inside a synagogue in the heart of a heavily Jewish neighborhood in Pittsburgh. The attack occurred during Shabbat services and during a bris, a celebration of a newborn life. Immediately before the …