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Graduate Student Patrick Walsh has Article Published in Australian Feminist Studies Journal

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Patrick Walsh, a graduate student in the Department of History at UW–Madison, has just had his first article published in the peer-reviewed journal, Australian Feminist Studies! The article is titled, “Experimenting with ‘Life’ in Nineteenth-Century Physiology: Brown-Séquard’s Method for Characterising Blood,” and discusses the intersection of feminist studies with historical analysis of the ontological questions of …

History Department TAs Receive Department and University Awards

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Eleven Teaching Assistants in the Department of History have received awards this year, both from the Department and from the University! The Department awards are as follows: Innovations in Teaching Award (Brianna Lafoon), Early Excellence Award (Chad Gibbs), and Exceptional Service Awards (Conrad Allen, Michael Kaelin, Ben Kasten, Emer Lucey, Alice Main). The Department also …

New Book from Honorary Fellow to be Released in Fall 2019

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James Ungureanu, a current honorary research fellow in the Department of History at UW–Madison, has a new book that is due to be released this fall. Ungureanu is a historian of science and religion, and his research is mainly focused on the period of the nineteenth-century. His new book, Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition: …

Professor Louise Young Receives Kellett Mid-Career Award

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Professor Louise Young was recently honored with a prestigious Kellett Mid-Career Award! This five year award was created to provide needed support and encouragement to faculty at a critical stage of their careers. The award is named for the late William R. Kellett, a former president of the WARF board of trustees and president of Kimberly-Clark …

Faculty Receive Vilas Professorships and Awards

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Four faculty members have received Vilas Professorships and Awards this year! Professor Francine Hirsch (Russian & European History) received the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship, an award recognizing distinguished scholarship as well as outstanding efforts in teaching and service. This Professorship will provide five years of research funding. Professors Nan Enstad (U.S. History) and Neil Kodesh …

History Department Congratulates New PhDs

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Congratulations to the eleven graduate students that completed their PhD in History this year! The graduates were recognized at a reception on May 10th at the University Club. The names of the graduates, along with their advisors and dissertation titles, are as follows: Brendon George, advised by Professor Susan Lee Johnson – “Mile High Metropole: …

Alumnus Tom Rademacher Has Thesis Published on Wisconsin Mining History

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Alumnus Tom Rademacher (BA, 2017) recently had his senior honors thesis published in volume 25 of The Mining History Journal – the peer reviewed, scholarly journal of the Mining History Association. Rademacher’s thesis is titled, Wisconsin Sand and Gravel Mining: From Nineteenth-Century Gravel Pits to Twenty-First Century Frac Sand Mines. During his time in the …

Professor Alfred McCoy Publishes Opinion Piece on Drug Prohibition

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Professor Alfred McCoy, the Harrington Professor of History at UW–Madison, has published an opinion piece on the foreign and domestic implications of drug prohibition policies, through the lens of history. The link to the piece can be found here: http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176549/. Professor McCoy researches and teaches on U.S. foreign policy, colonial empires in Southeast Asia, and global drug …

Walter Stern receives 2018 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History

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Walter Stern, Assistant Professor of Educational Policy Studies and affiliated faculty member of the History Department, has received the 2018 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History. This prize is awarded annually by the Historic New Orleans Collection and Louisiana Historical Association for the best book on Louisiana History. His prize-winning book is entitled …

Pablo F. Gómez wins the William H. Welch Medal

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Pablo F. Gómez, Associate Professor in the departments of History and Medical History and Bioethics, has been awarded the 2019 William H. Welch Medal by the American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM) for his book The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic (University of North Carolina Press, 2017). …