Professor Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen has an article published today in the Washington Post, titled “The shutdown is Trump’s ultimate attack on American intellectual life.” Professor Ratner-Rosenhagen specializes in U.S. intellectual history at UW-Madison. For the full …
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Professor Glotzer to Lead First Year Interest Group
The College of Letters and Science and the Wisconsin School of Business have approved a First Year Interest Group that Professor Paige Glotzer will lead, called Capitalism and America. The FIG is part of a UW-Madison …
Professor Gómez’s Book Receives Honorable Mention from Conference in Latin American History
Pablo Gómez’s book The Experiential Caribbean ( University of North Carolina Press, 2017) was awarded the 2018 Honorable Mention of the Bolton-Johnson Prize for the best book in Latin American History by the Conference on Latin American History …
Undergraduate History Major, Hilary Miller, Presented at Annual AHA Meeting
Senior History major Hilary Miller presented “When Terror Took Out the Count: Evaluating Israel’s Response to the Assassination of U.N. Mediator Folke Bernadotte” in the American Historical Association’s Undergraduate Research Lightning Round on Friday, January …
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen Releases New Book
Professor Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s new book, The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History, has just been released this week by Oxford University Press. The book examines the history of American thought from the pre-contact period …
Professor Nan Enstad Featured in Op-ed piece for the Washington Post
Professor Nan Enstad’s new book, Cigarettes Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism, was featured in an op-ed piece for the Washington Post. The piece, titled “How Gov. Evers can make Foxconn work for Wisconsin: …
Alumna Katie Jarvis Publishes New Book
Oxford University Press has released alumna Katie Jarvis’s book Politics in the Marketplace: Work, Gender, and Citizenship in Revolutionary France. Katie Jarvis received her Ph.D. from UW-Madison in 2014 and is currently Assistant Professor of …