The History Department Remembers Professor Emeritus J. Rogers Hollingsworth (1932-2019) Throughout his career, Hollingsworth had a broad interest in socio-economics and comparative research. He became actively involved with the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, and he was honored to be elected President in 1996. He authored studies on diverse topics including American and European …
The History Department Remembers Professor Emeritus David Morgan (1945-2019) Professor Emeritus David O. Morgan passed away on Wednesday, October 23, 2019, at the age of 74. He earned his B.A. from the University of Oxford in 1966 and his Ph.D. from the University of London in 1977. He came to the University of Wisconsin–Madison in …
Spiritual Socialists: Religion and the American Left Refuting the common perception that the American left has a religion problem, Vaneesa Cook highlights an important but overlooked intellectual and political tradition that she calls “spiritual socialism.” Spiritual socialists emphasized the social side of socialism and believed the most basic expression of religious values—caring for the sick, …
An insightful exploration of the iconic Galápagos tortoises, and how their fate is inextricably linked to our own in a rapidly changing world. The Galápagos archipelago is often viewed as a last foothold of pristine nature. For sixty years, conservationists have worked to restore this evolutionary Eden after centuries of exploitation at the hands of …
Professor Nan Enstad has been awarded the prestigious Albert J. Beveridge Award from the American Historical Association for her recent book Cigarettes Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism (University of Chicago Press, 2018). The Beveridge Award is presented for a distinguished book written in the English language on the history of the United States, …
Professor Sarah Thal and her students from History 300: History at Work, took a trip to the Wisconsin Historical Society as part of their class. Lisa Saywell, Director of Public Services, gave the students a tour of the building, including the library and storage room where they keep the newspaper archives, which happen to be …
Professor and History Department Chair, Leonora Neville, has been featured on a podcast called Byzantium & Friends, a platform through which scholars and the general public can engage with all things related to Byzantine Studies. The episode in which Professor Neville takes part is a conversation about Byzantine gender. Professor Neville offers insights based on …
Tyler A. Lehrer, a graduate student in the Department of History at UW–Madison, has just published his first peer-reviewed article in Buddhist Studies Review. The article “Mobilizing Gendered Piety in Sri Lanka’s Contemporary BhikkunOrdination Dispute,” considers politicized representations of women’s piety in the context of controversial ordinations of Buddhist nuns in Sri Lanka. Lehrer is …
Current Ph.D. candidate Jennifer Stitt, who studies U.S. intellectual and cultural history, has published a new piece in the digital magazine Aeon. Her article is titled “For Rachel Carson, wonder was a radical state of mind,” and discusses the conservationist icon’s use of wonder as a central pillar in her ecological and moral philosophy. Stitt …
The Department of History is proud to welcome Kacie Lucchini Butcher, a public historian with a background in museum studies and exhibit curation, as the new Director of the Public History Project at UW–Madison! The Public History Project is an initiative that will span multiple years, and hopes to “uncover and give voice to those …