Professor Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen has a new piece published with The Hedgehog Review titled, “Nietzsche’s Quarrel with History: Are there any lessons left for history to teach us?” The piece was published as part of their summer 2022 issue on the theme of “The Use and Abuse of History.” As a specialist in U.S. intellectual and cultural history, Ratner-Rosenhagen …
Congratulations to Foreign Language Area Studies Recipients The Department of History is excited to announce and celebrate the following graduate students receiving Foreign Language Area Studies fellowships: Patrick Eickman James Flynn Christopher Herde Carly Lucas FLAS fellowships are funded by the U.S. Department of Education and administered by the UW’s National Resource Centers to assist …
Congratulations to Graduate Research Travel Award Recipients The Department of History is pleased to announce the recipients of departmental graduate program research travel awards: Isobel Ashby Ayanna Drakos Ezra Gerard Ethell Gershengorin Chris Hulshof Shatrunjay Mall Lewis Patterson Alex Scheepens Aijie Shi Emily Tran Jorge Trinidad Espinoza Yacov Zohn
Congratulations to Graduate Writing Prize Recipients The Department of History is pleased to announce the recipients of departmental graduate program writing prizes for academic year 2021-2022! Zada Ballew has received the Kate Everest Levi Second-Year Paper Prize. The Kate Everest Levi Prize is given for outstanding second-year papers. Alex Scheepens has received the Paul J. …
The Department of History is pleased to announce the recipients of departmental TA awards for academic year 2021-2022! Capstone Teaching Awards Lindsay Ehrisman Zhijun Ren Excellence in Teaching Awards Brigid Nannenhorn Meghan O’Donnell Early Excellence Teaching Awards Ludwig Decke Joseph Hanauer Francisco Hernández Moleres Brandon Nakashima Alex Paradowski Emma Wathen
The Department of History is excited to announce and celebrate the following PhD candidates who are receiving UW–Madison Department of History Dissertator Fellowships: James Barnes Josh Doyle-Raso Ayanna Drakos Erin Faigin Emily Hutcheson Michael Kaelin Samm Newton Thomas Rider Bree Romero Leslie Sabakinu Patrick Walsh
Congratulations to Dissertators Receiving External Fellowships The Department of History is excited to announce and celebrate the following History and History of Science, Medicine, and Technology dissertators who are receiving external fellowships: Patrick Walsh has received the American Philosophical Society John C. Slater Fellowship. Samm Newton has received the Knauss Fellowship from the National Oceanic …
On Saturday, May 14, 2022 the Department of History celebrated graduates who have received their PhDs in History with a hooding ceremony and reception at the Fluno Center. Among those recognized were graduates of the years 2020, 2021, and 2022. The graduating class of 2021-2022 included: Bailey K. Albrecht Leslie A. Bellais Philip Cerepak Robert …
Congratulations to Professor Monica Kim, who has been selected as a 2022 Summer Humanities Research Fellow with the Institute for Research in the Humanities at UW–Madison. Funded by the College of Letters & Science and the Office of Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education, the Summer Humanities Research Fellowship program supports tenured faculty at …
Tyler A. Lehrer (he/him), PhD Candidate in Southeast and South Asian History and current Fulbright U.S. Student Program research grantee in Sri Lanka, recently gave an invited lecture to students, staff members, and early-career instructors in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. Tyler’s lecture focused on the experiences, constraints, processes, …