UW-Madison Emeritus Professor Gregg Mitman received the award of Knight Commander, Humane Order of African Redemption, one of the highest honors conferred by the Republic of Liberia. The distinguished honor was given by the President …
2025
Marcella Hayes Receives Award for Forthcoming Book: Black Self-Governance: The Making of Political Culture in Seventeenth-Century Lima
UW-Madison History Professor Marcella Hayes’ forthcoming book, Black Self-Governance: The Making of Political Culture in Seventeenth-Century Lima, is already receiving praise. Black Self-Governance has won the 2025 Founder’s Prize for manuscripts in development from the …
UW-Madison Puerto Rican Studies Hub Launches
Launched in October, UW–Madison’s Puerto Rican Studies Hub is the first initiative of its kind in the Midwest and is already emerging as a dynamic center for scholarship, public engagement, and community connection. Supported by …
Louise Young Receives WARF Named Professorship
Louise Young, the Marilyn B. Young Professor of History at UW–Madison, has been honored with a 2025-26 WARF (Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation) Named Professorship, a prestigious award that recognizes faculty who have made major contributions …
Florence Hsia and Devin Kennedy Help Achieve NEH Grant for a New Center for Humanistic Inquiry Into AI and Uncertainty
Over the last two years, Professors Florence Hsia and Devin Kennedy have played key roles in an interdisciplinary effort to rethink how artificial intelligence is studied on campus. Working as part of a team led …
Stephen Kantrowitz Receives Honorary Doctorate from University of Southern Denmark
In fall 2025, Professor Stephen Kantrowitz, the Linda and Stanley Sher Professor of History at UW-Madison, was nominated for an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Southern Denmark. The honorary …
Brandon Bloch Publishes Book: Reinventing Protestant Germany: Religious Nationalists and the Contest for Post-Nazi Democracy
In August 2025, Professor Brandon Bloch published his first book with Harvard University Press, entitled: Reinventing Protestant Germany: Religious Nationalists and the Contest for Post-Nazi Democracy. The book tells the story of how German Protestant …
Marla Ramírez Receives 2025 Mentor Award
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Marla Ramírez (History & Chican@ and Latin@ Studies) on receiving the 2025 Mentor Award for her outstanding work as a mentor, teacher, and contributor to the UW–Madison community. Professor Ramírez takes …
Gloria Whiting’s New Book, Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New England continues to receive awards
In August 2024, Gloria Whiting published her first book, Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New England, which explores how Black New Englanders maintained a sense of belonging among their kin …
Allison Powers Useche Interviewed and Publishes Article in Diplomatic History Journal
Professor Allison Powers Useche recently published an article in the journal Diplomatic History entitled “Defining Dispossession: Arbitration and the Transformation of Sovereign Debt.” In this article, Professor Useche examines how nineteenth-century arbitration tribunals—particularly the 1868 …