Congratulations to Professor Paige Glotzer, whose 2020 book How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960 (Columbia University Press) has received the Lewis Mumford Prize from the Society for American City and Regional Planning History. The Lewis Mumford Prize is awarded for the best book on American city and regional planning …
We asked students in Professor Kathryn Ciancia’s Spring 2022 Senior Thesis Colloquium what advice they would give to a student just starting out in the process of researching and writing a senior thesis. See what they had to say in this video. Our senior thesis students also successfully presented on their research topics publicly on …
Congratulations to the Department of History’s Graduate Program Manager, Leslie Abadie, on receiving the 2022 L&S Graduate Student Academic Advising Excellence Award! Leslie was honored for the award at a ceremony on April 27th. According to the award announcement: “Leslie Abadie received glowing letters of praise from several colleagues who have served or are currently …
On Saturday, April 30th, 2022 Professor Emeritus William Cronon returned to the UW–Madison campus for a conference in celebration of his retirement. The one day conference titled “Common Places: Keywords for a More Than Human World” was organized by his former graduate students and featured presentations from over twenty scholars and writers. Professor Emeritus William Cronon held …
Professor Francine Hirsch is a historian of modern Europe with a specialization in Russia and the Soviet Union whose areas of expertise include comparative empires, the history of human rights, and Russian-American engagement. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began back in February of 2022, Professor Hirsch has continued to publish widely on the human rights …
This weekend, thousands of Badgers will earn their degrees at UW–Madison Commencement. In anticipation of the commencement proceedings, UW–Madison highlighted several graduates with unique accomplishments to share, and three of them will be receiving their degrees in History. The first is Susan Kay Baker. Susan is a returning student earning her bachelor’s degree in history following …
Professor Judd Kinzley has a new article out in The American Historical Review (the official publication of the American Historical Association), titled “Wartime Dollars and the Crowning of China’s Hog Bristle King: The Dubious Legacies of American Aid, 1938-1949.” “US war mobilization efforts in the early 1940s helped create demand for a vast assortment of …
Professor Francine Hirsch has co-authored a new op-ed for the Los Angeles Times titled “Lessons from the Soviets on how to hold Russia accountable for war crimes.” Evidence of Russian violence against Ukrainian citizens continues to emerge, and Professor Francine Hirsch suggests Ukraine needs “a dedicated state commission to collect, systematize and analyze evidence of …
This Saturday, April 30th, Professor Emeritus William Cronon will be back on the UW–Madison campus to participate in “Common Places: Keywords for a More Than Human World,” a day-long conference organized by his former PhD students that will double as a belated retirement celebration. As part of the conference, Cronon will deliver a keynote address titled, “Looking …
Congratulations to alumnus Russell King (BA 2002) on the publication of his new book, Rajneeshpuram: Inside the Cult of Bhagwan and Its Failed American Utopia, out this month from the Chicago Review Press. “In 1981, ambitious young Ma Anand Sheela transported the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh to the United States to fulfill his dream of …