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Neil Kodesh receives Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award

Posted on January 30, 2024

Professor Neil Kodesh was one of thirteen faculty members chosen to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards. This honor recognizes exemplary achievements in teaching, an honor given out since 1953 to recognize some of the …

Posted in 2024, All News, Awards, History News

Judith Houck Publishes New Book: Looking Through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement

Posted on January 30, 2024

The University of Chicago Press has published Professor Judith Houck’s new book, Looking Through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement. The work highlights local history to tell a national story about the evolution of …

Posted in 2024, All News, Books, Gender and Women’s History, History News, History of Science Medicine and Technology

Mou Banerjee and Undergraduate Students Featured in Interview on The Nonviolence Project

Posted on January 2, 2024

The College of Letters & Science recently published a spotlight on The Nonviolence Project, an online history project that aims to educate people about the success of nonviolent protests across the world. The project is …

Posted in 2024, All News, History News

Paige Glotzer Publishes New Essay for Prestigious Digital Redlining Project

Posted on December 13, 2023

Paige Glotzer published an essay as part of the launch of the new version of the prestigious digital resource for redlining, Mapping Inequality. Glotzer was invited to pilot the site’s new feature, called “context essays,” …

Posted in 2023, All News, History News, U.S./North American History

John Suval (PhD 2018) Receives Book Award from the Southern Historical Association

Posted on December 13, 2023

Dangerous Ground: Squatters, Statesmen, and the Antebellum Rupture of American Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2022) by John Suval received the Southern Historical Association’s 2023 James A. Rawley Award for the best book on secession and/or …

Posted in 2023, All News, Alumni, Awards, Books, History News, U.S./North American History

NBA Star Devin Harris Returns to Graduate 20 Years Later

Posted on December 13, 2023

This Sunday, December 17 former professional basketball player Devin Harris will graduate with his bachelor’s degree in History from UW-Madison, nearly 20 years after leaving UW-Madison to play in the NBA. Before turning pro, Harris …

Posted in 2023, All News, Alumni, History News

History Alumnus Nils Peterson Receives Prestigious Marshall Scholarship

Posted on December 13, 2023

Recent alumnus Nils Peterson has been awarded a 2024 Marshall Scholarship. This prestigious honor gives high-achieving young Americans the opportunity to study at the graduate level at any university in the United Kingdom. Nils will …

Posted in 2023, All News, Alumni, Awards, History News

History Major Chloe Foor Receives Spotlight for Interdisciplinary Work

Posted on December 12, 2023

The School of Computer, Data, & Information Sciences recently published a student spotlight on Chloe Foor that detailed how Chloe is using her interdisciplinary education to study the human-centered aspects of technology. Chloe is a senior majoring in Computer …

Posted in 2023, All News, History News

Marla Ramírez and Undergraduates Present at Oral History Conference

Posted on November 28, 2023

Professor Marla Ramírez and two undergraduate students, Lezly Vejar and Zevdah Drizin, presented on their original research at the 2023 Oral History Association Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland this October. The presentation, titled “Latinxs in …

Posted in 2023, All News, History News, Latin American and Caribbean History

Grad Student Verenize Arceo Receives Two WHA Awards

Posted on November 7, 2023

Congratulations to graduate student Verenize Arceo, who has received two awards from the Western History Association! Verenize received the 2023 WHA Graduate Student Prize and the 2023 Trennert-Iverson Conference Scholarship. The WHA Graduate Student Prize …

Posted in 2023, All News, Awards, History News
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