April 8 – 9, 2025 DAY OF THE BADGER Day of the Badger is an annual campus-wide day of giving. For 1,848 minutes on April 8 – April 9, alumni, friends, faculty, and students come together to celebrate and support UW. How to Participate: Celebrate UW! Come together with other Badgers by wearing …
Ashley Brown – Associate Professor and Allan H. Selig Chair in the History of Sport and Society – has continued to receive many accolades for her biography of the iconic American tennis player and golfer Althea Gibson. Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson (Oxford University Press, 2023) offers a revealing look at the …
In February 2025, UW–Madison History Professor Emily Callaci published a new book entitled Wages for House Work: The Story of a Movement, an Idea, a Promise. You can find Wages for House Work at Penguin Publishing. Read more about the book and Emily Callaci’s work on this project at The Guardian. Wages for Housework has …
In January 2025, James Sweet published a new book with Oxford University Press. The book is entitled Mutiny on the Black Prince: Slavery, Piracy, and the Limits of Liberty in the Revolutionary Atlantic World. Read more here.
Professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo recently collaborated with artist Bad Bunny on his latest project. Accompanying the songs on Bad Bunny’s sixth album, “Debí Tirar Más Fotos”, 17 visualizers were released on January 5. The visualizers feature historical notes, written by Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, highlighting different eras and figures in Puerto Rico’s political and social justice past. After …
In January 2025, Harvard University Press published a new book authored by Professor Mou Banerjee: The Disinherited: The Politics of Christian Conversion in Colonial India. An illuminating history of religious and political controversy in nineteenth-century Bengal, where Protestant missionary activity spurred a Christian conversion “panic” that indelibly shaped the trajectory of Hindu and Muslim politics. …
In December 2024, UW–Madison History Professor Allison Powers published a new book with Oxford University Press. The book is entitled Arbitrating Power: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law. Read more here. Book Awards Allison Powers Useche’s book, Arbitrating Empire, received the 2026 Robert E. Dalton Award for Outstanding Contribution in the …