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African History

Emily Callaci Publishes Book Wages for House Work

Posted on February 14, 2025

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 …

Posted in 2025, African History, All News, Books, Gender and Women’s History, History News

Jim Sweet American Historical Association Presidential Address

Posted on April 4, 2023

Jim Sweet ended his term as the 2022 President of the American Historical Association with a presidential address at the annual American Historical Association Conference. The address titled “Slave Trading as a Corporate Criminal Conspiracy, from the …

Posted in 2023, African History, All News, History News

Jim Sweet Gives His Presidential Address at the American Historical Association Conference in January

Posted on December 28, 2022

Jim Sweet ends his term as the 2022 President of the American Historical Association with a presidential address at the annual American Historical Association Conference. The address, entitled “Slave Trading as a Corporate Criminal Conspiracy, …

Posted in 2022, African History, All News, History News

Welcome New Faculty

Posted on September 13, 2022

The Department of History is excited to welcome three new faculty members – Khaled Esseissah, Michael Martoccio, and Jorell Meléndez-Badillo! Khaled Esseissah joins us as a historian of Islam, colonialism, slavery, race, and gender, with …

Posted in 2022, African History, All News, European History, History News, Latin American and Caribbean History

Professor Emeritus Thomas Spear Receives AHA Prize for Best Reference Work

Posted on November 8, 2021

Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Thomas Spear for winning the American Historical Association’s Waldo G. Leland Prize for the best reference work published over the last five years! The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Historiography: Methods and Sources …

Posted in 2021, African History, All News, Emeriti, History News

UW-Madison History Grad Students Receive Fulbright Awards

Posted on March 1, 2021

UW-Madison was included this year on the list of U.S. colleges and universities that produced the most 2020-2021 Fulbright U.S. Students. Of the thirteen Fulbright recipients from UW-Madison, three are graduate students in our Department …

Posted in 2021, African History, All News, Awards, European History, History News, Intellectual History Group, Latin American and Caribbean History, Southeast Asian History

Professor James Sweet Becomes Next President-Elect of AHA

Posted on July 28, 2020

Professor James H. Sweet has been selected as the new President-elect of the American Historical Association. In the 2020 balloting for officers and committee representatives, AHA members voted to elect James Sweet as the next …

Posted in 2020, African History, All News, Awards, History News

Professor Brenda Gayle Plummer Publishes Article on Global Engagement with U.S. Civil Rights

Posted on June 19, 2020

Professor Brenda Gayle Plummer, a historian who specializes in the intersection of race and U.S. foreign relations, has an article published today on foreignaffairs.com, titled “Civil Rights Has Always Been a Global Movement: How Allies …

Posted in 2020, African History, All News, History News

Professor Brenda Gayle Plummer Featured in Podcast Episode on Racial Injustice and U.S. Foreign Policy

Posted on June 16, 2020

Last week Professor Brenda Gayle Plummer was featured on a new episode of Deep Dish, a podcast from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. The episode, titled “How Racial Injustice Shapes U.S. Foreign Policy,” delves …

Posted in 2020, African History, All News, History News

Professor Gregg Mitman Receives Prestigious Grant from European Research Council

Posted on April 1, 2020

In a press release this week, it was announced that Professor Gregg Mitman had received a coveted Advanced Investigator Grant from the European Research Council. Mitman is a Professor of History of Science, Medical History, …

Posted in 2020, African History, All News, History News, History of Science Medicine and Technology, U.S./North American History
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