The Department of History, currently housed in the George L. Mosse Humanities Building, may be getting a new home! To those who have taken classes in the building, it will come as no surprise that the structure is in dire condition. The university is now working to secure state support for a new L&S Academic …
The 2022 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools” ranks UW–Madison’s History Department as #11 for overall Best History Programs. Ranked specialties place the program at #1 for African History, #2 for Women’s History, #12 for Cultural History, #12 for European History, #13 in Modern U.S. History, and #14 in Latin American …
Congratulations to Professor of Law and History Department affiliate Mitra Sharafi on receiving the 2021 Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award! “Sharafi links theory to practice and encourages students to think beyond the four walls of the classroom. While learning the traditional elements of contract formation, breach and remedy, she consistently reminds students that the ‘law on the …
Alumnus Jeffrey Moran (BA in History and Comm Arts, 1988) has published his fourth book, The Scopes Trial: A Brief History with Documents, Second Edition (New York, Bedford Books, 2021). The subject of the book is something he first learned about in one of Professor Emeritus John M. Cooper’s undergraduate courses. Moran attended Harvard University …
In a new article from the College of Letters & Science, Professor Sarah Thal and UW students are featured for their work on Wisconsin 101: Our History in Objects. Wisconsin 101 is a website and public history initiative that brings together the Department of History, the Wisconsin Historical Society, and Wisconsin Public Radio to raise …
Congratulations to Professor Monica Kim, who has received the 2021 Outstanding Achievement in History Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies! This is the fourth award that Kim has received for her book, The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History (Princeton University Press, 2019). Kim’s work aims to place US empire …
The African American Intellectual History Society has published a new essay from Professor Paige Glotzer in their award-winning blog, Black Perspectives. The essay, “Redlining, Predatory Inclusion, and Housing Segregation” was created as part of a roundtable on Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s book Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership. The full …
Professor Elizabeth Hennessy has received the 2021 Leopold-Hidy Best Article Award for her 2020 publication in the journal Environmental History. The Leopold-Hidy Award is given by the Forest History Society and the American Society for Environmental History in recognition of superior scholarship. Selected by the Environmental History editorial board, the award is based on elegance …
UW–Madison News has featured Professor Mou Banerjee in a piece about pandemic pedagogy, and what meaningful connection with students looks like in a virtual classroom. At the end of the fall 2020 semester, Professor Banerjee’s History 200 First Year Interest Group students surprised her with a collection of heartfelt signs displaying thank you messages, revealed …
Professor Brenda Gayle Plummer has an article published in the Washington Post that places this last summer’s global uprising after the police killing of George Floyd in the broader historical context of international anti-racist activism undertaken by African Americans. This activism goes back centuries, connecting freedom struggles across national boundaries and shaping how the United States …