Modern Language Association of America has announced that it would be awarding David A. Chang (Ph.D. 2002) with its third MLA Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages. David Chang is a professor of history at University of Minnesota, and his research focuses on indigenous peoples, colonialism, as well as borders and …
Christine Lamberson (PhD, 2012) was featured in October’s issue of Perspectives on History, the news magazine of the American Historical Association for her work conducting oral history interviews with veterans in West Texas. She co-authored an article on the project with Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai. Both Lamberson and Wongsrichanalai are associate professors in the Department of History at …
Al McCoy’s essay, “Trump’s Trade Czar, The Latest Architect of Imperial Disaster,” is featured on TomDispatch.com “As Washington’s leadership fades more quickly than anyone could have imagined and a new global order struggles to take shape, a generation of leaders has crowded onto the world stage with their own bold geopolitical visions for winning international …
Please join us in congratulating Professor Catherine Jackson, who has received a First Book Award from the UW–Madison Center for the Humanities! Professor Jackson’s book, titled Material World: Making Modern Chemistry, will explain the rise to power of synthetic organic chemistry in nineteenth century Germany. In her own words, “It’s a story of personal ambition …
Piotr Puchalski is a Ph.D. candidate in modern European history at UW–Madison (advised by Kathryn Ciancia). His research was recently featured on the website of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, where he is currently a Silas Palmer Fellow, conducting his dissertation research on the interwar Polish state’s engagement in colonial ideas and actions. The Hoover Institution, …
Graduate student Erin Faigin recently had a book review published in Marginalia, a channel of the Los Angeles Review of Books. Faigin reviewed Shari Rabin’s book, Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America (NYU Press, 2017). Faigin is a Peter and Julie Weil Distinguished Graduate Fellow in the Department of History at UW–Madison, …
UW History alum Jason Morgan (Ph.D. 2016) served as translator of an updated, English-language edition of Hata Ikuhiko’s 1999 book, Comfort Women and Sex in the Battle Zone (Hamilton Books, Rowman & Littlefield, 2018) – in the publisher’s words, “an exhaustive examination of the controversial issue of comfort women” in World War II. The meaning …
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Paige Glotzer, who was just awarded the UW–Madison Center for the Humanities First Book Award! This award means that she will have the opportunity to workshop her manuscript this spring with a group of selected reviewers. Her first book is titled, Building Suburban Power: The Business of Exclusionary Housing Markets, 1890-1960, …
Professor Nan Enstad is the guest on an episode of the biweekly podcast “Edge Effects,” produced by graduate students in the Nelson Institute’s Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE) who edit the digital magazine of the same name. She joins environmental historian Drew Swanson (of Wright State University) to discuss her new book, Cigarettes, …
“The Last Word” By Alfred W. McCoy ’68 One glorious afternoon in fall 1965 — the start of my sophomore year — I arrived at Baker Field to find crew practice canceled. Instead of returning home I took a single shell from the boathouse and, for the first and only time, rowed through the Spuyten …